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Afghan Student Sentenced To Death For Distributing Article On Quranic Verses

By Howard Friedman

The Chronicle of Higher Education yesterday reported that a journalism student at Afghanistan?s Balkh University was sentenced to death on Tuesday for distributing material found by a religious court to be insulting to Islam. The student, Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, apparently distributed an article he found on the Internet that commented on verses in the Quran about women. Radio Free Afghanistan says that the case now moves on to the first of two appeals. Journalist organizations in Afghanistan have called on President Hamid Karzai to pardon Kambaksh. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting claims that Kambakhsh was prosecuted in order to punish his brother, a reporter who has written pieces critical of very powerful commanders in Balkh and other northern provinces.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).