Afganistan's thought police- DEATH

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	Afganistan's thought police- DEATH

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4-18-2009 11:43 PM

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An Afghan journalist was sentenced to death yesterday after a secret court convicted him showing classmates an article from the Internet that violates the tenets of Islam.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/afghan-student.html"><P>The Associated Press says Sayad Parwez Kambaksh is a student who also works for <EM>Jahan-i-Naw</EM> in Mazar-i-Sharif. <A href="http://www.azadiradio.org/en/news/2008/01/46A1C59F-02ED-4F9D-A0D5-A85D1A09D70E.ASP">Radio Free Afghanistan</A> says he "was arrested in late October over a controversial article that commented on verses in the Koran that were about women."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/afghan-student.html"><P>The court says it acted in response to complaints from students who saw the article, but media groups tell <A href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/afghanistan.journalist/?iref=mpstoryview">CNN</A> that the 23-year-old is being punished because his brother, a fellow journalist, has published stories that upset some of the powerful figures who run things in northern Afghanistan.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/afghan-student.html"><P>Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi "is a very brave reporter and I've never known him to falter," Jean MacKenzie of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting tells the news channel. "But having his brother sentenced to death has made him very, very anxious."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/20626FCC-9936-4D49-A574-8C8E988A4AD6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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