Afghan security personnel escort suspects at close of daily proceedings at the Primary Court trial in Kabul on May 2, 2015. The first trial of 49 suspects, including 19 police officers, on charges relating to the mob killing of an Afghan woman began in Kabul on May 2 and is expected to continue for two days. The suspects all face charges relating to the March 19 killing of a 27-year-old woman, Farkhunda. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan artists march after performing a role play on April 27, 2015 to depict the lynching of Afghan woman Farkhunda, 27, who was attacked by an angry mob, in Kabul. Farkhunda was beaten with sticks and stones, thrown from a roof, before being run over by a car outside a mosque in Kabul on March 19. The mob then set her body ablaze and dumped it in a river as police allegedly looked on. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan protesters hold banners as they shout slogans during a rally in front of The Supreme Court in Kabul on March 24, 2015, held to protest the killing of Afghan woman Farkhunda. More than a thousand people protested in the Afghan capital to call for justice after a woman was brutally killed by a mob who falsely accused her of burning a copy of the Koran. The woman, 27 year-old Farkhunda, was beaten with sticks and stones and thrown from a roof before being run over by a car outside a mosque in Kabul on March 19, 2015. The mob then set her body ablaze and dumped it in Kabul river, while police allegedly looked on. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
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