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Taliban justice

It took me a while to decide whether to post this here. Time’s circulation is huge but I wanted to add my own small contribution. And I remember this barbaric law being passed when I was in Afghanistan last year: Afghanistan passes ‘barbaric’ law diminishing women’s rights http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape So even with a government installed by [...]

Student facing 20 years in hell

Read the article at http://richarddawkins.net/article,3654,n,n which is a repost of http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/student-facing-20-years-in-hell-1643069.html. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh (originally sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan after allegedly distributing a report that was critical of the treatment of woman under Islamic law) has been told he will now spend the next 20 years in jail.  It gets even worse. [...]