A Young Life Hangs in the Balance in Afghanistan's Cultural War – washingtonpost.com

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While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women’s rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.

In the West, it would have been an innocent act. In Afghanistan, it has just earned him a death sentence.

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