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Afghan court sentences journalist to death on blasphemy charge
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ANI India on 23 January, 2008 05:30:00
 
A court in Afghanistan's Balkh Province has sentenced a journalist to death  for
distributing "blasphemous" material.
Twenty-three-year-old Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, who was arrested in 2007 for
downloading material from the internet relating to the role of women in Islamic
societies, has confessed to the charge of blasphemy, and therefore, had to be
punished.
The court said that it would not entertain any protests against the death
sentence on Kambakhsh.
Kambakhsh, a student at Balkh University and a journalist for Jahan-e Naw (New
World), was arrested in October 2007 after material he downloaded was deemed to
be offensive to Islam. (ANI)