Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 2, 2008 @08:21AM from the that's-a-bit-harsh-i-think dept.

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."

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Re:1st censorship death sentence by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-02 10:31 · Score: -1, Troll

Now, all we have to do is complete the implementation of the colonists' vision. Yeah, we all know the evils the Reverend Martin Luther King would have wreaked had he lived.

If you think religion is inherently bad, you have to explain MLK.

Of course, the true explanation is simple: all religions are NOT equal.