{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Afghanistan: 20-Year Sentence for Journalist Upheld","author_name":"","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3113.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3113.html'\u003EAfghanistan: 20-Year Sentence for Journalist Upheld\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHuman Rights Watch \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n(New York) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai should issue a pardon for Parwez Kambakhsh, a student and part-time journalist, whose 20-year prison sentence for blasphemy has been upheld by the Supreme Court, Human Rights Watch said today. The Supreme Court decision was the final stage in a highly politicized case that has repeatedly flouted Afghan and international law and highlighted the lack of professionalism among the Afghan judiciary. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nThe court upheld the sentence on (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}