There are news reports out today about a journalism student in Afghanistan who has been sentenced to death. According to the Associated Press story, 23-year-old Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, was found guilty of violating the tenets of Islam when he distributed a paper that humiliated Islam.
The story reported that Kambakash was not represented by a lawyer during the trial. There are two appeals courts yet, while the student remains in custody. He was a student at Balkh University. It is not known if he wrote the paper or only distributed it. Kambaksh also works as a journalist at the Jahan-i-Naw newspaper in Mazar-i-Sharif.
WOW! Can you imagine if that's the way things worked here in the good old USA? It's when things like this happen that we can thank our Founding Fathers for the Constitution. It isn't difficult to imagine the impact this could have.....
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