Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? 475
mrogers writes "A journalism student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death by a Sharia court for downloading and sharing a report criticizing the treatment of women in some Islamic countries. The student was accused of blasphemy and tried without representation. According to Reporters Without Borders, sixty people are currently in jail worldwide for criticizing governments online, fifty of them in China, but this may be the first time someone has been sentenced to death for using the internet. Internet censorship is on the rise worldwide, according to The OpenNet Initiative."
Heh (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country (Score:5, Funny)
You're so narrowminded that you could peer through a keyhole with both eyes!
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Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country (Score:4, Funny)
(It is Pennsylvania, right?)
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Fifty states and you picked that one as an example? :)
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