CNN) — A three-judge panel in northern Afghanistan has sentenced a student journalist to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that allegedly blasphemed Islam, according to international media groups.But media groups in the country say the journalist is in fact being punished for investigative pieces his brother wrote. Those articles exposed human rights abuses by political and paramilitary factions in northern Afghanistan.
Sayed Perwiz Kaambaksh, 23, was tried behind closed doors and without representation in Mazar-e-Sharif Tuesday, the group Reporters Without Borders said.Soon after, the deputy provincial prosecutor in charge of the case threatened to imprison any reporter who expressed support for Kaambaksh, the group said in a statement.

My God, the savage, utter disregard for human rights or a free press!! We must hurry and liberate Afghanistan from the clutches of the intolerant Islamofacsists!!!

Oh, wait. This is the government the US established after routing the Taliban?

Em.

Never mind.

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