Ghows Zelmay sentenced to 20 Years Prison
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply worried over a Kabul Appeal Court ’s verdict upholding a 20-year prison sentence on Ghows Zelmay, a former journalist and spokesman for Afghanistan ’s Attorney-General, on charges of wrongly interpreting religious scripture.
Zelmay was arrested in November 2007, shortly after he published a translation of the Holy Qur’an [...]