Disturbing news from Afghanistan. Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, the young journalist whose death sentence for ‘blasphemy’, passed in a four-minute trial in Mazar-i-Sharif, provoked international outrage last year, has apparently been sentenced to 20 years in prison by Afghanistan’s Supreme Court. After Kambakhsh was allowed to appeal the original death sentence, it was widely hoped that [...]
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