YOUNG AFGHAN JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH, OSTENSIBLY FOR BLASPHEMY
January 23rd 2008 06:10
A court in Afghanistan’s northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif has passed the death sentence on a young journalist, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, for alleged blasphemy
At a news conference yesterday, Hafizullah Khaliqyar, the deputy provincial prosecutor in charge of the case, threatened to imprison all journalists who support Kambakhsh, adding that "Kambakhsh has confessed to the crime and must be punished."
Kambakhsh was supposedly arrested because of a controversial article commenting on verses in the Koran about women, although it has now been established that he was not the article's author. Rahimullah Samandar, the head of the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association, said he was in fact arrested because of articles written by his brother, Ibrahimi, criticising the provincial authorities.
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