"A woman is dead: a female lawmaker, similar to myself."

"That woman is dead because we weren't able to bring her to Canada fast enough."

Heather McPherson,
Canadian MP.

#MursalNabizada
#Afghanistan

Former female politician Mursal Nabizada was becoming desperate to flee Afghanistan – but foreign officials weren't responding to her calls.

"Mursal herself sent so many emails and no one got back to her. Until she lost her sweet life."

#MursalNabizada
#Afghanistan

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/one-of-my-best-friends-former-afghan-olympian-remembers-slain-lawmaker-1.6240197

#FundamentalistOppression #TalibanTerrorists #MursalNabizada #AfghanWomen #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

Ex-Afghan Leader, Who Stayed Back After Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/fearless-champion-ex-afghan-lawmaker-mursal-nabizada-bodyguard-shot-dead-in-her-home-3694547

Given the chance to democratically elect female politicians, that is exactly what Afghans did.

69 women were elected as representatives in the Afghanistan government in 2019.

28% of the politicians in Afghanistan were women. That's the same percentage of women as there are in U.S. Congress.

Afghanistan was making real progress before the Taliban took over. The Taliban are desperate to make them forget that. We can't let the Taliban make them forget that.

#MursalNabizada
#Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, authorities are no closer to solving the mystery of who shot and killed former female politician Mursal Nabizada last Saturday.

In other news, Mursal Nabizada was one of the 69 women democratically elected to government in 2019. To the Taliban, who love erasing history, she was a very unwelcome reminder of how mainstream female participation in political life in Afghanistan had become just before they took over.

#MursalNabizada
#Afghanistan

Afschuwelijk. 💔
#MursalNabizada
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/16/afghaanse-politica-die-niet-wilde-wijken-voor-taliban-vermoord-a4154383

RT @ProAsyl@twitter.com

Durch die menschenfeindliche Politik der #Taliban werden Millionen von Frauen & Mädchen in #Afghanistan ihrer Rechte auf ein freies, sicheres, gleichberechtigtes Leben beraubt. Neustes Ereignis: Die Ermordung der ehem. Parlamentarierin #MursalNabizada
https://www.dw.com/de/ex-abgeordnete-in-afghanistan-ermordet/a-64399405

RT @amnesty_de@twitter.com

Die ehemalige afghanische Abgeordnete Mursal Nabizada und ihr Leibwächter wurden in Kabul ermordet.

Gerechtigkeit für Mursal Nabizada und alle Frauen in #Afghanistan!

#MursalNabizada https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1615023647365767169

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/amnesty_de/status/1615029080700719104

(@ProAsyl) Durch die menschenfeindliche Politik der #Taliban werden Millionen von Frauen & Mädchen in #Afghanistan ihrer Rechte auf ein freies, sicheres, gleichberechtigtes Leben beraubt. Neustes Ereignis: Die Ermordung der ehem. Parlamentarierin #MursalNabizada
https://www.dw.com/de/ex-abgeordnete-in-afghanistan-ermordet/a-64399405 https://nitter.namazso.eu/ProAsyl/status/1615316773099773952#m

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64285789 Former Afghan MP #MursalNabizada, & her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in Mursal Nabizada: in the capital Kabul
Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the #Taliban seized power in August 2021.

Her brother and a second security guard were wounded in the attack on Sunday.

Former colleagues praised Ms Nabizada as a fearless champion for #Afghanistan who turned down a chance to leave the country.

Mursal Nabizada: Gunmen kill former Afghan MP at home in #Kabul

#MursalNabizada #Afghanistan #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64285789

From Sara Wahedi: “Mursal Nabizada was a member of the Afghan parliament. She stayed in Afghanistan. She did not leave after the #Taliban took over the country.

MP Nabizada was shot dead in her home today.

Afghanistan is hell on earth for women.” https://nitter.net/sarawahedi/status/1614738740869578758?s=12&t=Bkeq_V-xRZWjpKqkw5BO- #MursalNabizada #WomensRights #FoRB

From Sara Wahedi: “Mursal Nabizada was a member of the Afghan parliament. She stayed in Afghanistan. She did not leave after the #Taliban took over the country.

MP Nabizada was shot dead in her home today.

Afghanistan is hell on earth for women.” https://nitter.net/sarawahedi/status/1614738740869578758?s=12&t=Bkeq_V-xRZWjpKqkw5BO-#MursalNabizada #WomensRights #FoRB

It's not yet clear who is responsible for the killing of Mursal Nabizada, who was one of several democratically elected female politicians in Afghanistan until the Taliban took over last year.

It is very clear that as a reminder that Afghanistan had a democracy, and that women were active participants, she was anathema to the Taliban.

#MursalNabizada
#SayHerName
#Afghanistan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64285789.amp

RT @JulietteCausans@twitter.com

🖤 #MursalNabizada, ancienne députée d’#Afghanistan, a été assassinée chez elle à #Kaboul aux côtés de son garde du corps.

Elle avait refusé d’abandonner son pays et son peuple.

Tuée dans la nuit afghane alors que les #Talibans construisent l’#ApartheidSexiste en plein jour.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JulietteCausans/status/1614705292461195266

CW
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/15/former-afghan-female-lawmaker-and-bodyguard-shot-dead-police
#kabul #MursalNabizada

RT @Berivan_Aslan_@twitter.com

In #Kabul ist die ehemalige Parlamentsabgeordnete #MursalNabizada & ihr Leibwächter in ihrem Haus erschossen worden. Das ist unendlich traurig!

Diese frauenfeindlichen Strukturen und Köpfe begehen tagtäglich Femizid. Die Weltgemeinschaft verliert ihre wichtigsten 1/2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Berivan_Aslan_/status/1614727939844706306

Han matat a Mursal Nabizada, exdiputada de l'Afganistan que havia decidit quedar-se a lluitar al país quan els talibans van prendre el poder

https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20230115/8684524/exdiputada-afgana-sido-abatida-tiros-casa-kabul-desconocidos.html #afganistan #MursalNabizada #feminisme

https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20230115/8684524/exdiputada-afgana-sido-abatida-tiros-casa-kabul-desconocidos.html #afganistán #MursalNabizada

This shot is by Afghan photographer Shah Marai,circa 2008.
The dye on the woman's finger indicates that she has just voted in the elections.
I will post this here in memory of Mursal Nabizada, the former politician in Afghanistan who was murdered last night.
Never forget that women and democracy are what the Taliban are most afraid of because they know that this is what will destroy them.

#MursalNabizada
#Afghanistan