Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Death Sentence For Afghan Student

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, the judge in charge of the court said Wednesday.

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See also:

Afghan journalist sentenced to death for 'anti-Islam' paper

Earlier:

Editor jailed over Muhammad cartoons