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Blogger for women's rights...leads to jail!

Afghani student blogger Sayed Pervez Kambakshhas has obviously, as regarded by the authorities, really gone out on a limb - in seeking to protect women's rights. He has been jailed for his troubles and faces a death sentence.

The Independent reports in "Karzai fights back as storm grows over rape laws":

"As Afghanistan's president grappled with some serious damage limitation yesterday over an incoming law that legalises rape, a student jailed for trying to improve women's rights issued a defiant message of hope: that one day both sexes might be equal in his country.

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, who was accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death for questioning Islam's treatment of women, said he dreams of an Afghanistan where women are free to live as "human beings".

"I want an Afghanistan where the mothers of this country and the daughters of this country have the same rights that you and I have as men," he said in an interview inside the Walayat prison where he has languished since June. "They should have the right to education. They should have the right to work in any organisation they want, and they should have the right to live as human beings in this society."

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