Rettet das Leben von Parviz Kambakhsh

Der 23-jährige Journalist wurde nach dreimonatiger Haft im Zentralgefängnis zum Tode verurteilt, wegen "atheistischer Propaganda". Nicht von Taliban-Entführern etwa, sondern von Richtern jenes Regimes, das einst ein Herr Fischer in Bonn als demokratischen Fortschritt aus der Taufe hob, das heute von der Bundeswehr gestützt wird. Ein Solidaritätsaufruf vom 12. Februar 2008 der Journalistengewerkschaft der französischen FO in dem auch ausdrücklich Frankreich und die BRD kritisiert werden.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: Spare the life of journalist Parviz Kambakhsh! Free him immediately!

We hold the governments of the NATO occupying troops responsible for his life. Parviz Kambakhsh, a 23-year-old Afghani student has just been sentenced to death after three months of detention under terrible conditions in the state security's detention centre in Marzar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Now in his third year of a journalism course at Balkh University in Mazar-e-Sharif, Parviz Kambakhsh also works as a journalist for the newspaper Jahan-e Naw.

The young journalist was thrown into prison after being characterised as an atheist and an opponent of the regime by the NDS, the Karzai regime's security service. He is also accused of having printed atheist articles off the internet and distributed them among his classmates.

Kambakhsh was tortured continuously during his detention, both physically and mentally, and even threatened with death if he did not admit to the charges leveled against him. He has not had access to a lawyer. He has not been allowed to see members of his family or friends.

The death sentence was delivered in his absence and in secret by Balkh Province Attorney General Hafizullah Khaliqyar and by the court in Marzar-e-Sharif.

In 2001, when the war started with the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan under the aegis of NATO, the occupying troops from the United States, France, Italy and Germany talked about re-establishing democracy and democratic rights and freedoms.

The Karzai regime that was put in place by the occupying forces has reintroduced Sharia law as the basic law of the land, with the support of all the states participating in the occupation and the war.

It is precisely in the name of the Sharia law that the young journalist Parviz Kambakhsh has been sentenced to death for circulating documents downloaded from the internet.

We, the undersigned journalists and defenders of human rights and fundamental freedoms, call on the Karzai government, NATO and the occupying forces from the United States, France, Italy and Germany, to say: - - Spare the life of journalist Parviz Kambakhsh! - - Free him immediately! - - We hold the governments of the NATO occupying troops responsible for his life.

Appeal initiated by: Tristan MALLE General Secretary, on behalf of the General Union of Journalists, Force Ouvrière (France), and Jean Pierre BARROIS Senior Lecturer, University of Paris 12

I endorse this appeal to spare the life of Parviz Kambakhsh!

NAME:

ORG/UNION/TITLE (list if for id. only):

CITY:

COUNTRY:

EMAIL: Please fill out and return to e-mail : j-p.barrois@wanadoo.fr

Postal Address: Syndicat Général Des journalistes Force Ouvrière, 131 rue Damrémont, 75018 Paris France