HUNDREDS of Afghans protested in the capital Kabul yesterday to demand justice for religious scholar Farkhunda, who was killed by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Koran.

The female scholar was beaten, pushed from a roof, run over by a car and set alight before her body was thrown in a river last Thursday.

Protesters gathered near the Shah Doshamshera mosque demanded the government prosecutes those responsible for her death.

Officials said 13 people had been arrested and 13 police were suspended amid allegations they stood by and did nothing to stop the attack.

The demonstrators blocked the road outside the mosque and marched from where the attack began to the point where the body was set alight.

Many of the women wore masks of Farkhunda’s battered and bloodied face.

They carried a banner accusing the government of breaking promises to bring rule of law to Afghanistan.