Media News - Monday, May 19, 2008
Afghanistan: Appeal verdict in death sentence case adjourned to 25 May
A court in Kabul Sunday adjourned its verdict in the appeal against the death sentence of journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh of Jahan-e Naw (The New World). The 24-year-old was sentenced to death for blasphemy by the first chamber of the Mazar-i-Sharif court in northern Afghanistan on 22 January 2008. Kambakhsh was represented by a lawyer at the appeal hearing even though the lawyer only received his file during the week, two months after the journalist’s transfer to Kabul. His brother, journalist Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, said that the ‘appeal could lead to his release’. ‘We want this trial to be fair and hope that the verdict will not be obstructed by pressure from the fundamentalists’, he added. Kambakhsh’s summary trial in Mazar-i-Sharif was held behind closed doors and without a defence lawyer. He has been imprisoned since 27 July 2007 and is currently being held in the Pul-e-Sharkhi jail in the east of the capital. (Reporters Without Borders)
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