af: I was tortured to confess, Pervez tells appeal court
Posted in: Censorship at 20/05/2008 11:36
Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student sentenced to death after being accused of downloading internet reports on women's rights, yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of blasphemy. He told an appeal court in Kabul that he had been tortured into confessing.
Mr Kambaksh, 24, vehemently denied that he had been responsible for producing anti-Islamic literature. He insisted the prosecution had been motivated by personal malice of two members of staff and their student supporters at the university in Balkh, where he was studying journalism.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-was-tortured-to-confess-pervez-tells-appeal-court-830587.html
