More international pressure needed for detained journalist

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

AFGHANISTAN: More international pressure needed for detained journalist

The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN remains deeply concerned by the continuing delay in the hearing of journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh’s appeal against a death sentence for the alleged crime of “blasphemy”. International PEN calls upon its members to seek meetings with their Foreign Ministries, to raise publicity in their local press, and if possible to send observers to the trial. International PEN calls on President Hamid Karzai to personally intervene in this case as a matter of urgency, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh in accordance with Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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