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May 7, 2008 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's "establishment" of generals, intelligence chiefs, and top bureaucrats may yet preserve its longtime hold on power by effectively playing off restored Supreme Court judges against its...

April 27, 2008 12:31:00 PM

Farzana Hassan and Tarek Fatah : "How long will it take the leadership of North America's traditional Muslim leadership to embrace the First amendment of the United Sates constitution and the doctrine of...

March 6, 2008 11:11:00 AM

The UK House of Lords voted Wednesday in favor of abolishing the criminal offenses of blasphemy and blasphemous libel from the UK common law. By a vote of 148-87 , the House of Lords adopted Amendment...

February 28, 2008 11:06:00 AM

Afghan Deputy Chief Judge Mohammed Omar Ishaqzai said that Afghan journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh should be permitted to appeal a death sentence that resulted from a trial where he says he was not represented by a lawyer [JURIST...

February 25, 2008 09:38:00 AM

The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice told the Independent on Sunday that he was not afforded a lawyer to represent him...

February 25, 2008 09:20:00 AM

Khalid Sekander : "An Afghan university journalism student was recently convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by an Afghan trial court for expressing the idea that polygamy may be an inappropriate practice under Islam. The...

February 19, 2008 08:09:00 AM

The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice will be provided the right to appeal his death sentence in open court, an Afghanistan Supreme Court...

February 5, 2008 09:06:00 AM

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is concerned about the imposition of the death penalty against journalism student Sayad Parwez Kambaksh but will not intervene in the case pending Kambaksh's appeal, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday. Under...

January 22, 2008 04:09:00 PM

An Afghan journalism student charged with blasphemy was sentenced to death Tuesday, following a recommendation from the Afghan Council of Mullahs. A three-judge panel found that papers printed from the Internet by 23-year-old Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, allegedly including discussion...

May 8, 2007 07:33:00 PM

The Parliament of Pakistan Tuesday rejected a proposal to soften the country's strict blasphemy laws that impose death or life imprisonment for insults to the Prophet Mohammed. Minno Bhandara, a Christian lawmaker in the National Assembly,...

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