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Headlines : Human RightsAfghan Journalism Student Sentenced to Death for Reading About Women's Rights
The Independent is launching a campaign today to secure justice for Kambaksh. The United Nations, human rights groups, journalists’ organizations and Western diplomats have urged Karzai’s government to intervene and free him. But the Afghan Senate passed a motion yesterday confirming the death sentence.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from AlterNet
A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan — not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation” and under the democratic rule of the West’s ally, Hamid Karzai.
The fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has led to domestic and international protests, and deepening concern about erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website that stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed.
Kambaksh, 23, distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University with the aim, he said, of provoking a debate on the matter. But a complaint was made against him, and he was arrested, tried by religious judges without — say his friends and family — being allowed legal representation and sentenced to death.
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Spanish inquisition style …
Hooray for democracy in Afghanistan.
The British, of course, are pissed that Karzai rejected their bid to put Lord Paddy Ashdown in charge of the future occupation of Afghanistan.
Like the UK gives a shit about democracy and freedom. LOL.
2 February 2008 – The Afghan Senate has withdrawn its demand for the death sentence for Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, following protests from the public and media, a report said.
Meanwhile . . .
The Pentagon thinks The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy ‘weapons system’.
So that sheds some new light on . . .
Third Internet cable reported cut in Mideast
Speaking of STFU.
Defense Tech wants us to think it’s The Terrorists. But who has the technology, and the maps, to mount that kind of operation?
Look at what it’s done to Iran’s connectivity. HELLO??!!!!!????
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than FOUR undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that
a major event of geopolitical proportions may be just around the corner.
Internet blackouts are impacting large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa after four undersea cable connections were severed. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.
Iran has been completely cut off from the Internet.
Israel and Iraq are unaffected by the outage.
Only people with Iridium Phones — and secret access codes) will have access to The Matrix. Dum de dum dum . . .
I trust Iran —and it’s allies— are in some sort of Red Alert mode . . .
Remember guys, pipelines have already been dug.
The Internet was designed to enhance the possibility for survival in the event of a nuclear war — by providing massive redundancy. If a packet can’t get through one way, it automatically looks for another.
Considering that Akamaitechnologies as prime world internet carrier/provider has an ex mossad officer as CEO, should we be surprised?
die Mossad ist EVrywhere!
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they put the damning report in that poor Afghan boy’s hands and subsequently ratted on him.
Have you seen this jewel?
Sarkozy accused of working for Israeli intelligence
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a sayan (Hebrew for helper), [is] one of the thousands of Jewish citizens of countries other than Israel who cooperate with the katsas (Mossad case-officers).
Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky describes how sayanim function in By Way Of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer. They are usually reached through relatives in Israel. An Israeli with a relative in France, for instance, might be asked to draft a letter saying the person bearing the letter represents an organisation whose main goal is to help save Jewish people in the Diaspora. Could the French relative help in any way? They perform many different roles. A car sayan, for example, running a rental car agency, could help the Mossad rent a car without having to complete the usual documentation. An apartment sayan would find accommodation without raising suspicions, a bank sayan could fund someone in the middle of the night if needs be, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police.
And, a political sayan ? It’s rather obvious what this could mean. The sayanim are a pool of people at the ready who will keep quiet about their actions out of loyalty to “the cause”, a non-risk recruitment system that draws from the millions of Jewish people outside Israel.
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So what would you call a Sayan that set up a stooge to create an international uproar about “human rights abuses”?
A blogger Sayan? And then a bug in the judge’s ear Sayan.
He downloaded it from a Farsi website . . . so as to incriminate Iran while they were at it. Does that sound like the hallmark of a violent zionist extremist to you?
::sometimes I wonder who you’re talking too::
The carpet import/export Sayan … and sayanora, rolled tight and on your way to promised land.
Seriously? This is considered an erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan?
As horrible as this is for me to type, the very fact that he was tried for it at all and not hung in the street to discourage other ‘readers’ immediately after being caught is a step forward, not back…