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4 Afghan women were invited home for an "evacuation flight".
They were all murdered on the spot
The Taliban said two suspects were arrested after the bodies of four women, including a rights activist, were found in a house in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
"I am constantly afraid that someone will come to my door," said an international organization worker, who she said received a similar suspicious phone call.
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Sunday, 07 November 2021, 13:15
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In the video: Demonstration of women and children against the violation of women's rights under the Taliban regime (Photo: Reuters)
Four women were killed in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-a-Sharif, and at least one of them was identified as a women's rights activist. A Taliban interior ministry spokesman said yesterday (Saturday) that two suspects had been arrested after the bodies were found in a house in the city, and they admitted during their interrogation that they had invited the women to the scene.
An Interior Ministry spokesman did not name the victims, but sources in the northern city told AFP that one of them was Frozen Safi, a women's rights activist and a university lecturer. In addition, three sources in Mazar-a-Sharif told the news agency that they heard that the women received a call that allegedly invited them to join a evacuation flight from the country and were picked up by a car - and they were eventually murdered.
"I knew one of these women, Frozen Safi," an employee of an international organization told AFP, who spoke anonymously. "She was also a women's activist, very well known in the city."
She said that three weeks ago she herself received a phone call from someone who claimed he could help her escape from Afghanistan.
"He knew everything about me, asked me to send my documents, wanted me to fill out a questionnaire, and pretended to be a clerk in my office in charge of providing information to the United States for my evacuation," she said.
After suspicions arose in her, she blocked the person who called her, and now she lives in fear.
She was shocked when she heard about the four murders.
"I was already scared," she said.
"My mental state is not good today. I am constantly afraid that someone will come to my door, take me somewhere and shoot me."
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A woman walks past a mural in the city of Mazar-a-Sharif, last month (Photo: GettyImages, WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
The Taliban, which captured Afghanistan in August after a 20-year war in a US-backed government, is an extremist Islamist organization.
Under his previous regime in the 1990s, women were completely excluded from public life and since his return to power many rights activists have fled the country.
Groups of women left in Afghanistan demonstrated in Kabul after its fall to the Taliban demanding respect for their rights and allowing girls to attend public schools.
Taliban fighters forcibly dispersed some of the demonstrations, and the government threatened to arrest any journalist who covered them.
However, Taliban leaders insist the fighters are not allowed to kill activists, and have promised to punish anyone who does so.
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