Student Says Death Verdict Followed Torture To Coerce Confession


	Student Says Death Verdict Followed Torture To Coerce Confession

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5-19-2008 10:30 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/697231b0-fa0a-4bf2-9742-5f8087291d57/A611E65C-1C94-4839-B2FD-C2A5322ED655/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rferl.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html">An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam has rejected the charges and told an appeals court in Kabul that he was tortured into a confession.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html">"As a human being, a Muslim, and a descendant of the family of the Prophet Muhammad, I will never allow myself to insult my ancestor or my religion," Kambakhsh told the court, according to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan. "These are things of which I have been unfairly accused. This accusation is unlawful and I don't know why they did this to me."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html">The hearing was adjourned until May 25 to allow 24-year-old Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to consult with an attorney and prepare a written defense.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html"><P>Kambakhsh was condemned to death by a court in Balkh Province in January at a summary trial for blasphemy at which he had no legal representation. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rferl.org/img/1947B83E-83F5-49AA-AE95-56D59B9036E3" alt="Afghanistan -- Demonstrators hold pictures of journalism student Perwiz Kambakhsh in front of the UNAMA office to protest the arrest and sentence to death of Kambakhsh for blasphemy, Kabul, 31Jan2007" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/5/7e522361-598f-48d1-8e30-7898fe170455.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="caption">Kambakhsh supporters protest in Kabul after his death sentence was announced in January</TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A611E65C-1C94-4839-B2FD-C2A5322ED655/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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