Death penalty in Internet case
From Times Wire Reports
An Afghan court sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that a three-judge panel said violated the tenets of Islam, another judge said.
Fazel Wahab, chief judge in Balkh province, gave no details on the sentence against Sayad Parwez Kambaksh.
Kambaksh’s family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict. The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts, Wahab said.
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