Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the 24 year old who was thrown in jail and sentenced to murder for downloading an article about woman's rights.
He finally recieved help, and after much pressure, the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has finally stepped forward and promised a more fair trial, and started by reducing the original sentence from penalty of death to life in prison (gee thanks Prez). Now with a lawyer, Pervez is in his second appeal. Hopefully he will get a trial longer than 4 minutes now (ya correction, it was 4 minutes not 5, sorry.)
Special thanks to over 100,000 people signing a petition for his release (and thats just on one website), David Miliband the British Foreign Secretary, and the long overdue attention of Condoleezza Rice.
There are rumours that Pervez has secretly gotten a passport, enabling him to flee the country if he is ever freed.
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