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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Student facing 20 years in hell

Student facing 20 years in hell

Afghan court secretly sentences student whose cause was taken up by The Independent. His crime? To download article on women's rights




"Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence".

1 comment:

Merkin said...

The guy behind him would not be out of place in a Peter Lorre film.