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KABUL — An Afghan journalism student who was jailed for asking questions in class about women’s rights under Islam has been freed after nearly two years, a media rights group said Monday.
Activists have called Parwez Kambakhsh, who was convicted of blasphemy and originally sentenced to death, a victim of an Afghan justice system that panders to religious conservatives at the expense of individual freedoms.
He was released several weeks ago after President Hamid Karzai signed a pardon in secret, according to the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which talked to his lawyer.
Kambakhsh has since fled Afghanistan out of fear that he will be the target of reprisal attacks.
