{"id":1260,"date":"2008-10-22T19:37:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T00:37:55","slug":"afghan-student-gets-20-years-for-blasphemy-on-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/22\/afghan-student-gets-20-years-for-blasphemy-on-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Student Gets 20 Years for Blasphemy on Women&#8217;s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/08\/10\/22\/1856213.shtml\">this post<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/filer.case.edu\/bct4\">Invisible Pink Unicorn<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence, a three-judge appeals court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-fg-afghanistan22-2008oct22,0,3625278.story\">reduced the sentence of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to 20 years in prison<\/a>. Kambakhsh was charged with circulating an article on women&#8217;s rights that he found online. From the article: &#8216;Family members have said Kambakhsh was beaten and threatened with death until he signed a confession and that local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.'&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noapparentmotive.org\/\">Friend<\/a> sez: Didn&#8217;t we invade Afghanistan, in part, to liberate the women there from the grip of the Taliban? Didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/uspolicy\/archive\/2005-04\/2005-04-07-voa1.cfm\">Laura Bush tell us how important this was<\/a>? Will someone please ask Laura Bush to comment on this?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em><a href=\"..\/?page_id=31\">Virginia Rutter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this post from Slashdot. Invisible Pink Unicorn writes &#8220;Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence, a three-judge appeals court has reduced the sentence of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to 20 years in prison. Kambakhsh was charged with circulating an article on women&#8217;s rights that he found online. From the article: &#8216;Family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,1066],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}