DAR AL ISLAM - AFGHANISTAN: KARZAI IS CONCERNED BUT WILL NOT INTERFERE UNTIL ISLAMIC COURTS FINAL PRONOUNCEMENT

Afghan president 'concerned' over death sentence to reporter who insulted Islam

President Hamid Karzai has expressed concern over the death sentence handed down to a journalist for insulting Islam, but will not intervene until Afghanistan's courts have their final say, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, 23, was sentenced to death on Jan. 22 by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at Balkh University. The article asked why men can have four wives but women cannot have multiple husbands. The court in Mazar-i-Sharif found that the article humiliated Islam.




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