Arts & Culture
(2008-01-30)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
(Associated Press) -
Afghan lawmakers are praising a death sentence handed down to a journalist for insulting Islam.
The 23-year-old was given the death penalty last week by a three-judge panel for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at a university in northern Afghanistan.
The article asked why men can have four wives, but women can't have multiple husbands.
The judges ruled the article humiliated Islam.
A spokesman for the country's upper house of parliament says it is condemning what it considers "international interference" to have the sentence annulled.
The journalist is appealing the decision. President Hamid Karzai will have the final say.
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