Afghan magazine editor sentenced to two years for blasphemy

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KABUL - A court in Afghanistan has convicted the editor of a women’s magazine of blasphemy after complaints his articles questioned Islam, and sentenced him to two years in jail, a media rights group said on Sunday.

The Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association said it would complain to President Hamid Karzai about the sentencing of editor Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, who has been in jail since his arrest two weeks ago.

“This trial was against the law, the arrest was against the law since the beginning,” the association’s president, Rahimullah Samander, told AFP.

“We told the court he didn’t make any mistake. He wrote what he had the right to write according to Afghan law and press freedom and freedom of expression,” he said.

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