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| Afghan police arrest five over public beating video |
| 2015-08-16 |
[DAWN] Afghan police tossed in the calabooseYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! five people near the northern town of Sar-e-Pol on Saturday after they were filmed beating a man and his daughter accused of robbery by a village fortune teller, the interior ministry said. A video of the brutal public beating, which shows a man hitting a young woman repeatedly with a large stick while a crowd looks on, attracted wide attention on social media and local television. The assault occurred earlier this month after a resident of Thughi village near Sar-e-Pol suffered a robbery and consulted a fortune teller to identify the culprit. "The father and daughter were beaten by the village resident after a fortune teller accused them of robbery," the interior ministry statement said. In May, film of a young woman being beaten to death by a mob in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... after she was wrongly accused of burning a Koran caused global outrage and underlined the vulnerable position of many women in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |