Afghan 'blasphemy' death sentence: An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court for distributing "blasphemous" material.
Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, was arrested in 2007 after downloading material from the internet relating to the role of women in Islamic societies. [...]
The court also threatened to arrest any reporters who protested against Kambakhsh's sentence.
Shock at death sentence passed on young journalist for blasphemy: The trial was held behind closed doors and without any lawyer defending him. [...]
Kambakhsh was supposedly arrested because of a controversial article commenting on verses in the Koran about women, although it has now been established that he was not the article’s author.
