Germany protests Afghan reporter’s death sentence
BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he would raise objections with Kabul to an Afghan court’s sentencing of a young reporter accused of blasphemy to death, in an interview broadcast Sunday.
“You can be sure that I will protest against this type of behaviour to the Afghan government, just as I have in previous cases,” Steinmeier told public radio station Deutschlandfunk. A court in the northern province of Balkh sentenced Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, to death Tuesday for distributing articles downloaded from the Internet that were said to be blasphemous.
A group of Afghan Islamic clerics on Saturday welcomed the ruling and warned the international community against “interfering in Afghanistan courts’ decisions.” The statement came after the United States expressed its concern to the Afghan government Friday over the death sentence for the reporter, who has been jailed since October. afp
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