Unprecedented Afghan Protest After Woman Killed Over Koran

Afghan protesters shout slogans during a rally in front of the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, March, 24. Thousands protest in Kabul to call for justice after Farkhunda was brutally killed by a mob over allegations she had burned a Quran. The woman, 27 year-old Farkhunda was thrown off a roof, run over with a car, set on fire and thrown into a river near a well-known mosque in Kabul.
Photographer: Parwiz Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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By Eltaf Najafizada

March 24, 2015 at 3:59 PM UTC

Updated on

March 25, 2015 at 4:15 AM UTC

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Several thousand Afghans took part in an unprecedented protest in Kabul Tuesday to demand the prosecution of the people who killed a female religious scholar after false allegations she had burnt a Koran.

Farkhunda, 27, died March 19 after a mob beat, stoned and ran over her with a car near a popular shrine in the Afghan capital. Her body was thrown into a river and set ablaze in the presence of policemen.