Fifth Floor

Killed for seeking justice


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BBC Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal has reported on the Kohistan video case for many years, and was helped by the man pursuing justice, Afzal Kohistani. In 2012 a video emerged showing five young women from Kohistan singing and clapping with two young men, behaviour forbidden is this region. The men were Afzal's brothers and although they escaped, three other brothers were killed in the name of honour. Afzal believed the women were also killed, and took the case to Pakistan’s Supreme Court. And now Afzal himself has been killed. Humaira remembers him.

(Photo: Afzal Kohistani, who fought for justice for the Kohistan video girls. Credit: Pam Constable/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

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