translated from Spanish: Former television journalist denounces arranged marriages in Afghanistan shot dead

The former television journalist Mena Mangal, known in the country for reporting reports against marriages and women’s rights, has died this Saturday in the capital Kabul, after receiving several shots made Two for two men on a motorcycle, as confirmed by the Afghan Interior ministry to Radio Free Liberty. The assassination occurred around 7.30 hours in the morning (local time) in the crowded Karte Naw market, where the former reporter was waiting for a Vehicle. The witnesses to the murder pointed out that one of the men on the bike fired four shots into the air to disperse the crowd before firing twice against the woman’s chest. Mangal was waiting for the car to be transferred to the lower house of the Afghan parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, where he was now working as a cultural advisor. He had previously served as reporter for the Ariana, TOLO, Lamar and Shamshad TV channels. The deceased had published articles in favor of the rights of Afghan women to work and Afghan girls to go to school, but their specialty were cases of forced marriage, such as that of a young woman forced to marry against her will in 2017 and the process by E He had to pass to get the divorce, which was confirmed at the beginning of May. Mangal’s assailants escaped the scene after the shooting and a special police unit was investigating his murder. At the moment no group has been attributed the responsibility of his death.

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