Afghan journalist Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh sits in the dock at a Kabul court. An Afghan appeal court overturned the death sentence of the reporter accused of insulting Islam Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFPAfghan Court Revokes Death Sentence For Student Journalist -- The Guardian
Judges deems sentence unfair and reduces it to 20 years in jail
An Afghan appeal court has overturned the death sentence of a student journalist who was accused of blasphemy after distributing anti-Islamic material, instead sentencing him to 20 years in prison.
Parwez Kambakhsh, 24, whose plight prompted an international campaign to save him, was studying journalism at Balkh University in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and writing for local newspapers when he was arrested in October 2007.
Prosecutors alleged that Kambakhsh disrupted classes by asking questions about women's rights under Islam. They said he illegally distributed an article that suggested the Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.
In January this year, a lower court in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif sentenced Kambakhsh to death after a trial that took place without a lawyer to represent him.
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My Comment: Questioning the rights of women nets you 20 years in jail .... Taliban prisoners get a better break than this journalist. Afghanistan exists in 7th century .... but with modern weapons.