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Philadelphia Inquirer
January 23, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan court yesterday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges held violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.
Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial. Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described the proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. -- AP
January 23, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan court yesterday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges held violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.
Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial. Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described the proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. -- AP
