Condemned to Death for an Internet Download

You can help to try to save the life of this 23-year-old Afghan journalism student and reporter named Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh. He has been sentenced to death for downloading and distributing material suggesting that Islam oppresses women.

I came across the story after I clicked on the Faith Freedom International link on my Deist Links web site. The top of the Faith Freedom International web site is posting a notice about the situation. They have a link to the Center for Inquiry, which furnishes further information. Austin Dacey, United Nations representative for the Center for Inquiry, and Idn Warraq, senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry, are urging compassion.

You can assist by clicking on this Center for Inquiry link. It provides opportunities both to sign a petition to free this student and to state your concern and urge his immediate release through a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

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