Ethics

Bringing Freedom to Afghanistan

By Ed Brayton

That wonderful democratic government we've installed in Afghanistan has, in its magnanimity, reduced the sentence of a young journalist who dared to criticize the Quran's view of women from death to a mere 20 years in prison.

An appeals court sentenced a young Afghan journalist to 20 years in prison for blasphemy on Tuesday, overturning a death sentence ordered by a provincial court but raising further concerns of judicial propriety in the case.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).