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The Association of Afghan Journalists and Writers has called for a fair appeal hearing and the release of the student of journalism, Sayed Parvez Kaambakhsh, on Tuesday with protest campaigns in the capital, Kabul , and in 19 Afghan provinces. The journalists met in front of the Supreme Court and handed over to the Chief Justice a petition for the political prisoner, reported the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV).
„It is a scandal for democratic Afghanistan and the international community of states that this innocent non-violent political prisoner has been custody for 247 days“, criticised the GfbV Asia consultant, Ulrich Delius. The appeal case of the student of journalism has been dragged out for months to delay his release. Parvez has on many occasions reported that he was tortured by security forces to extort a confession from him.
The imprisonment and sentence against Parvez are designed to hit his brother, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, a journalist with a good reputation and a feared critic of the warlords and their arbitary rule, said Delius.
Parvez was sentence to death on 23^rd January 2008 in a court case which also did not reflect the principles of Islamic law in Afghanistan „for attacking and insulting the Holy Prophet and intentionally falsifying verses from the Koran“. He was charged with distributing among students of the Balkh University a text which is offensive to Islam. Parvez denies this and says that his signature was forged.
The case against Parvez began in December 2007. The Council of Islamic Clerics of the province of Balkh recommended that he should be sentenced to death. In the court hearing of 23^rd January 2008 Parvez had no opportunity to defend himself. The case lasted only four minutes and the death sentence lay ready for signature. However Parvez made no confession, nor did he sign the sentence.
Governments all over the world have stated their dismay at this unjust court case. Both Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister for Defence Franz Josef Jung expressed their concern over the case.
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