There are several ethnic groups including the Hazara, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Pashtun/Afghan/Patan, Baloch and Nuristani live in so-called country Afghanistan. Many of them particularly the Hazara have suffered geocide, and systematic discrimination in the hands of so-called majority Pashtuns. One-ethnic State government together with terrorist groups such as Taliban and Kochi Taliban are following the old policy of Pashtun tribes that Tajiks to Tajikistan, Uzbeks to Uzbekistan, and Hazaras (...)
Home > English > Freedom of Speech > New photo of jailed journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh released to Kabul (...)

New photo of jailed journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh released to Kabul Press
PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION
Sunday 17 May 2009, by
All the versions of this article: [English] [فارسى]
Kabul Press today received this photo, snapped by an anonymous Kabulpress source, of 21 year old student-journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh in the notorious Pul-e-Charki prison outside of Kabul. The stress from months in prison is evident.
In January 2008, Kambakhsh was sentenced to death by a local court in Mazar-i-Sharif on the charge of "blasphemy" for distributing a scholarly article about women in the Koran to fellow students. He firmly denies the charge. In February, after spending several months in a Kabul jail, he was secretly sentenced by the Supreme Court of Afghanistan to twenty years in prison— in violation of the Afghan Constitution. Despite international outcry and a promise by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to see that justice would be done, Parwiz remains in jail.
Friends and relatives relate that Parwiz is suffering from several mental and physical ailments due to the imprisonment.
Please sign our petition to U.S. authorities to press for the release of Parwiz. It will be personally delivered to the U.S. White House and U.S. State Department by representatives of KabulPress.
For more information:
Journalist Roxana Saberi freed in Iran— Why not Kambakhsh in Afghanistan? Sign our petition!
IP Plans: Best Cloud Web Hosting
br>Domain Registration - Search and register your domains with IP Plans
Fresh Cloud Shared Hosting with IP Plans
Fully Managed Cloud and SSD VPS with IP Plans
Fully managed Dedicated Servers with IP Plans
Home > English > Freedom of Speech > New photo of jailed journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh released to Kabul (...)