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The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. [1] Malikzada, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. [2]
2.1.1 Anti-lynching legislation and the ... President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 ... Farkhunda's burial was attended by a large crowd ...
On February 26, 2020, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, [6] a revised version of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, passed the House of Representatives, by a vote of 410–4. [7] Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has held the bill from passage by unanimous consent in the Senate, out of concern that a convicted criminal could face "a new 10-year ...
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The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named in honor of a 14-year-old Black boy who was kidnapped and tortured to death in Mississippi in 1955.
Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, speaks after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29.
Then-Senator Kamala Harris debates in support of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act on June 5, 2020. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is a United States federal law which defines lynching as a federal hate crime, increasing the maximum penalty to 30 years imprisonment for several hate crime offences. [1] [2]
The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act is an Act of the United States Congress introduced by John Lewis that allows the reopening of cold cases of suspected violent crimes committed against African Americans before 1970. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the legislation on June 20, 2007, by a vote of 422 to 2. [1]