In Kabul, the former deputy of the Afghan parliament Mursal Nabizada was killed in his own house. She was shot by unknown, her bodyguard also died, Radio Liberty reports.
Nabizada was a parliamentarian from 2019 to August 2021, when the Taliban movement came to power in Afghanistan. She is one of the few women politicians who did not leave the country after a change of power. She was 32 years old.
The ex-deputy openly spoke out against the laws introduced by the Taliban. She criticized the ban on education for women and girls and other violations of civil rights.