Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?

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."

Comments

Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

Shame on America for believing that people can change ? That they deserve the second chance that saddam/muslims weren't going to give them ?

Shame ! Shame ! Shame on America !

Also please don't refer to it as "sharia". Refer to it as "islam". There is NO POINT where islam stops and sharia begins. The two are one and the same.

You suck (virtually)

[towsonu2003]

Didn't you people "liberate" that country a few years ago?

But it is a peaceful religion!!!

[p51d007]

Coming to a country near you...unless the wimps of the would start squishing these morons like the pigs they are. As a matter of fact, take a page from General Pershing and do what he did. Line up about 50 of them. Dip bullets in pig blood. Execute all but one. Take the bodies, toss then into a common grave, pour pig blood & pig body parts on them, cover them up (while the one you let live watches). Let the only survivor go......they did that in the late 1919's era.......NOT ONE more act of terrorism for a long time.

Re:This is OUR fault. WE did this.

[c6gunner]

I don't understand.

That much is obvious. What a great way to end a clueless rant.

Re:1st censorship death sentence

[Captain Splendid]

Congratulations! Instead of responding to the substance of my post, you parsed it, contended definition, and offered a pointless quote all while bringing nothing to the conversation. It's thanks to mindless, blinkered centrists such as yourself that we're still arguing the fucking meaning of what some scumbucket politician said instead of nailing him to the cross for abuse of power.

You think you're so clever, with your moderate positions, never once realizing that this is real life, not some kind of obscure documentary that needs to be overanalyzed from a safe, objective distance.

You freakish fucks make me puke.