Amid A Wave Of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan, She's No. 11 On A Murder List
Journalist Fatima Roshanian has faced threats before, but she and many other Afghans say the risk to their lives is more serious than ever. "People are being killed everyday, everywhere," she says.
KABUL, Afghanistan — It's not the risk of contracting COVID-19 that keeps journalist Fatima Roshanian home. It's the murders.
Roshanian scaled back her movements after she found her name on three different lists circulating on Afghan social media, claiming to be of people the Taliban want to kill. On one list, she's number 11.
"They are after people who are well-known, who are against the values of this society, who speak out," she says.
It's not the first time Roshanian has been threatened. She's offended plenty of conservatives in her life in her job as the editor of an Afghan feminist magazine, . It covers topics like sex, virginity, periods, marital affairs — all shocking by Afghan
