– I wrote about this case previously back on February 1st, 2008. Â I said then, and remind you now, that this is the government we (the US) put into power and are supporting in Afghanistan.
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An Afghan student journalist who was sentenced to death for blasphemy has told an appeals court that he confessed after being tortured.
Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh was convicted in January of insulting Islam.
But at the appeals court in Kabul the 24-year-old insisted he was innocent of all the charges.
He said he was tortured into confessing that he had disrupted university classes by asking questions about women’s rights under Islam.
He was also convicted of distributing an article on the same subject, and adding three additional paragraphs.
He told the crowded, hour-long appeal hearing: “As a Muslim … I never allow myself to do such a thing. These are totally lies.”
Kambakhsh’s death sentence was handed down during a closed-door trial, which drew condemnation from parts of the international community.
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