Afghan MPs support death sentence
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The Afghan parliament supports a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy.
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President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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MPs vote in favour of maintaining the 28-day limit on holding terror suspects without charge.
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Criticism by Afghanistan could undermine domestic support for Britain's military and development efforts in the violence-scarred country, an influential body of MPs said Thursday.
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Nato must commit more troops and aid to Afghanistan if it is to establish a viable democracy, British MPs say.
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A journalist in Afghanistan is sentenced to death for distributing blasphemous material.
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Two inmates and at least three prison guards die in an attempted jailbreak in the Afghan capital, the jail authorities say.
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A Kabul, Afghanistan, court has sentenced 29-year-old Reza Khan to death for killing four journalists in 2001. Khan was convicted of killing Australian television cameraman
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Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is turned into most of the world's heroin and helps fuel the Taliban insurgency, should be used instead to make pain killers, the European Parliament said on Thursday.
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woman and a young Afghan girl killed on Saturday by a Taliban suicide bomber in central Kabul. declare a winner until it has reviewed a report by an independent panel investigating voting irregularities.
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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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Afghanistan's human rights commission says those responsible for war crimes must be brought to justice.
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Afghanistan's parliament has granted  immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of  conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human  rights groups for war crimes trials.
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Afghanistan&#039;s parliament demanded the arrest of those responsible for a deadly crash by a US military truck that set off the worst riots here since the Taliban fell, as police said 12 people had died in the unrest.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam
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Overwhelming support from MPs for Observer campaign to back system of 'presumed consent'