:00:00. > :00:00.interview with the family of one the perpetrators. This has some graphic
:00:00. > :00:19.and highly disturbing scenes of violence from the outset.
:00:20. > :00:22.On the 19th of March this year Farkhunda Malikzada was brutally
:00:23. > :00:26.Beaten to death in the centre of Kabul, as hundreds of people
:00:27. > :00:30.It was alleged she had burned the Koran.
:00:31. > :00:31.The killings sparked a wave of unprecedented protests
:00:32. > :00:47.For the first time, we speak to the family of one of
:00:48. > :01:16.It was just before Afghan New Year, a major holiday in the calendar.
:01:17. > :01:19.Farkhunda, a 27-year-old woman living in Kabul, was leaving
:01:20. > :01:34.Farkhunda offered to help her mother with the preparations for the
:01:35. > :01:48.New Year festivities when she got back from class.
:01:49. > :01:50.Just down the road from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque
:01:51. > :01:54.in the centre of town, a young man - Yaqoob - was helping out in his
:01:55. > :02:31.It was lunchtime, and Farkhunda also found herself
:02:32. > :02:37.She had decided to take a detour to the shrine in the Shah-Do
:02:38. > :02:43.She said her prayers and then got into a conversation with
:02:44. > :02:46.a caretaker, who was selling charms - paper bearing Koranic verses
:02:47. > :03:00.Farkhunda disapproved of the custom, considering it un-Islamic.
:03:01. > :03:03.It is believed she was trying to persuade the caretaker to stop
:03:04. > :03:06.selling the chance when he began to shout, "This woman is an American,
:03:07. > :04:03.This video shows Farkhunda denying that she has burned the Koran,
:04:04. > :04:06.The police try to disperse the crowd, firing gunshots in the air.
:04:07. > :04:08.Farkhunda is on the ground, surrounded by policemen.
:04:09. > :04:10.The images which follow are graphic and very
:04:11. > :04:29.Again, she is photographed. and move her away from the mob to
:04:30. > :04:32.But what happens next is documented in graphic and distressing detail.
:04:33. > :04:35.Videoed on the mobile phones of those who stood and watched.
:04:36. > :04:43.The police try to push the attackers away from Farkhunda.
:04:44. > :04:46.In this disturbing footage, she is pulled up onto the roof,
:04:47. > :05:05.They beat her, but she manages to stand up.
:05:06. > :05:07.What happens next is too upsetting to show.
:05:08. > :05:14.Farkhunda pleads with them to stop, but the men kick her over.
:05:15. > :05:55.They ran Farkhunda over with this car.
:05:56. > :05:58.She is dragged down the street some 200 metres, until her body is
:05:59. > :06:03.dumped in front of the shop where Yaqoob is working that day.
:06:04. > :06:06.Yaqoob runs out to find out what the commotion is, and he joins in,
:06:07. > :06:12.punching Farkhunda, as others kick and stamp on her.
:06:13. > :06:14.Then they drove Farkhunda onto the riverbed and Yaqoob,
:06:15. > :06:27.dressed in brown, joins others to stone her with large slabs of rock.
:06:28. > :07:53.The police put them on TV, to publicly say Farkhunda was
:07:54. > :08:16.The authorities told them to get out of Kabul, for their own safety.
:08:17. > :08:18.News of Farkhunda's killing that afternoon spread quickly.
:08:19. > :08:21.Those who had videoed her murder uploaded the footage to social media
:08:22. > :08:37.for all to see - some of them bragging of their involvement.
:08:38. > :08:39.Farkhunda's killing was immediately endorsed on social media
:08:40. > :08:54.This, despite President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemning the attack.
:08:55. > :09:00.The next day a few women's rights activists
:09:01. > :09:02.organised a vigil for Farkhunda, but were met with reluctance
:09:03. > :09:14.Earlier that day, though some did condemn it, a number
:09:15. > :09:21.of imams endorsed Farkhunda's murder in their Friday sermons.
:09:22. > :09:23.Little wonder, then, that the killers seemed to think
:09:24. > :09:43.they could commit such an heinous crime with impunity.
:09:44. > :09:45.They were wrong - the police began arresting people.
:09:46. > :09:49.Yaqoob's father spent the day after Farkhunda's murder going
:09:50. > :10:10.from one police station to another, trying to find his son.
:10:11. > :10:36.All he knew was that he had been arrested.
:10:37. > :10:38.Farkhunda's brutal murder in the heart of Kabul was going
:10:39. > :10:45.But the charred ground where she was set alight was a shocking,
:10:46. > :10:52.The authorities announced that she had not burned the Koran.
:10:53. > :10:55.Officials who had endorsed her killing, some of whom were sacked,
:10:56. > :10:59.retracted their comments, as did the imams.
:11:00. > :11:03.The religious elite condemned her murder.
:11:04. > :11:05.Farkhunda's family said their daughter had never suffered
:11:06. > :11:08.from mental illness, and they returned to Kabul to bury her.
:11:09. > :12:28.Her mother watched the videos of her death.
:12:29. > :12:30.Three days after Farkhunda's murder, more than 1,000 people gathered
:12:31. > :12:34.The public mood over her death transformed into one of grief
:12:35. > :13:40.The carrying of the coffin by women was unprecedented in Afghanistan.
:13:41. > :14:43.In the days after Farkhunda's murder, protesters filled the
:14:44. > :14:51.streets of Kabul in their thousands, marching to the Supreme Court,
:14:52. > :14:56.demanding justice for Farkhunda and an end to violence against women.
:14:57. > :14:59.Women, joined by men, in some of the largest protests
:15:00. > :15:08.Some of the women marched with their faces painted red, in memory
:15:09. > :15:30.As Farkhunda started to become an icon for activists,
:15:31. > :15:36.the world learned more of who she was - a deeply religious woman,
:15:37. > :15:40.a student of Islamic law - a bitter irony that she had been branded
:15:41. > :16:31.Just days before her death, she was making plans for university.
:16:32. > :16:35.Yaqoob was charged with murder and disrespecting a corpse.
:16:36. > :16:38.His parents condemned the mob killing of Farkhunda when it was
:16:39. > :16:54.But they argued that their son punched Farkhunda and stoned her
:16:55. > :17:24.They say Yaqoob is innocent of murder.
:17:25. > :17:50.Yaqoob's parents say he was only 16 at the time of the attack, a minor.
:17:51. > :17:55.Yaqoob was one of 49 men charged in connection with Farkhunda's killing.
:17:56. > :18:27.19 of them were policemen, who were on duty that day.
:18:28. > :18:32.Six weeks after Farkhunda's murder, the trial began.
:18:33. > :18:36.Activists hoped this would be a defining moment for Afghanistan -
:18:37. > :18:40.upholding the rule of law, and doing it with transparency.
:18:41. > :18:45.The proceedings were broadcast live on national television.
:18:46. > :18:52.The trial, at which Farkhunda's mother spoke, was unusually swift.
:18:53. > :19:01.11 police officers were sentenced to one year in prison for
:19:02. > :19:07.Eight civilians were given 16 years in prison, and four death
:19:08. > :19:14.Including the charm seller, who had instigated the attack
:19:15. > :20:42.On the riverbed where Farkhunda was set alight,
:20:43. > :20:49.She has been given the status of martyr in Afghanistan,
:20:50. > :20:55.an honour usually only bestowed on fallen soldiers.
:20:56. > :21:02.But will her horrific killing and the reaction to it change anything?