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+-   Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? on Saturday February 02 2008, @12:52PM mrogers

Submitted by mrogers on Saturday February 02 2008, @12:52PM
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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. The Independent newspaper has organized a petition calling for the student's sentence to be overturned."
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