{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Afghan journalist begins death penalty appeal","author_name":"","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1682.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1682.html'\u003EAfghan journalist begins death penalty appeal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew York, May 19, 2008\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes an appellate hearing Sunday in the blasphemy conviction of imprisoned journalism student Parwez Kambakhsh in Afghanistan . Kambakhsh, sentenced by a trial court to death, is asking an appeals panel to overturn his conviction. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nKambakhsh\u2019s brother, Yaqub Ibrahimi, who attended the hearing before a three-judge panel in Kabul , described the proceedings in a telephone interview with CPJ today. \u201cThey gave him a short time to (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}