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via Melville House: http://www.mhpbooks.com/sushmita-ban...n-afghanistan/

From the article:

Banerjee’s death is the latest in a series of violent acts against outspoken women by the Taliban, echoing the attempted murder of Malala Yousufzai in October 2012. Although the Karzai administration initially rolled back many of the restrictions on women’s activities from the Taliban era, the code of conduct issued by the Ulema Council and endorsed by President Karzai in March 2012 included many new limitations on male-female interaction and mandated full hijab, among other restrictions. Women’s rights activists have decried this endorsement as a retrogressive move by the government.

Banerjee may also have been a victim of the Taliban’s efforts to quell freedom of expression, with some reports claiming that her attackers accused her of writing “nasty things” about them. Many authors have become targets of fatwas and bodily violence from radical groups, including Maiwan Halabjee, who fled to Norway following a fatwa and blasphemy indictment in his native Iraq, Farag Foda, an Egyptian human rights activist who was assassinated by extremists, and Malalai Joya, a former member of Afghanistan’s parliament who has survived several assassination attempts.