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Afghan Writer's Death Sentence Reduced

Student gets 20 years for 'blasphemy' about women's rights

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 22, 2008 2:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – Parwez Kambakhsh won’t be executed for distributing literature on women’s rights, but the student and part-time journalist will spend the next 20 years in prison, an Afghan appeals court ruled yesterday. “This is arguably worse for him,” one human-rights advocate told... Read full story »

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