Katherine Margaret Evans (24 October 1948 – 17 November 2003) was an English journalist and women's rights activist in Islamic countries.
[3][4] She reported on the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel but were defeated after a few days of fighting.
Another report of hers saw her wandering around in the dark at Tehran holding a heavy and large jar filled with hashish with a Western colleague when the Iranian Revolution was occurring.
Evans visited the Qom in Iran in an attempt to interview the house arrested moderate Hussein-Ali Montazeri and warned of radicalised graduates being destined for military training away from Tehran or in Lebanon's lawless Beqaa Valley.
[2] In 1995, she won an Amnesty International Press Award,[1] for "an investigation into the plight of women accused of adultery in Pakistan, who were being imprisoned under repressive Islamic laws and then raped by the police.
[1] Following the demise of the Taliban in 2001, Evans established the charitable foundation Kathy Evans Education Trust in order to establish a school in Kabul so that Afghan adolescents and women could be taught carpet-weaving, jewellery-making and literacy and to slow the trade of mostly exported semi-precious stones.