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Afghan student sentenced to death
A journalism student at Afghanistan’s Balkh University was sentenced to death Jan. 22 for distributing an article taken from the Internet that a religious court found to be degrading to Islam, the Associated Press reported.

Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, 23, distributed but allegedly did not author the information that condemned verses in the Quran about women.

Kambaksh was arrested after some students reported that the article’s content was offensive. Now, several groups, including Afghanistan’s National Journalists’ Union and the president of the Parliament of the 27-nation European Union, are asking Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, to pardon Kambaksh, saying that the article’s content was attempting to improve the status of women in Afghanistan.

Ongoing faculty strike may force class cancellations at universities in Israel
Israel’s universities may have to cancel their semester due to an ongoing faculty strike that began in October, The Chronicle for Higher Education reported.

The university presidents have asked the National Labor Court to issue an injunction, forcing professors to return to work, but the court refused. Unless professors can successfully negotiate with university and government officials, classes may be cancelled.

—Katie Dunn

 
 
 


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