Article: Editor's jailing tests Afghan democracy.(Ali Mohaqeq Nasab )

Article: Afghanistan: editor recants on women's rights to escape death ...
off our backs;  November 1, 2005 ;     615 words ... ... calling for rights for women. Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, a man who edits a monthly magazine ... only half the weight of a man's. Nasab also wrote that cutting the hands ... fundamentalists. Under pressure, Nasab recanted and wrote apologies for ...

Article: Findings from F.P. Nasab et al in molecular biology ...
Life Science Weekly;  November 25, 2008 ;     643 words ... ... endogenous, multimeric enzyme of the yeast cell," wrote F.P. Nasab and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "Therefore, these ... dolicholpyrophosphate-linked high mannose oligosaccharides." Nasab and colleagues published their study in Molecular Biology of ...

Article: Afghan prosecutors seek death penalty for blaspheming Islam.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  November 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Afghanistan -- The prosecutors say Ali Mohaqeq Nasab deserves to die for what he did ... the Taliban, again ... Free Mohaqeq Nasab!" But since then, outrage seems ... squirms when talking about what Nasab wrote. "He's talking about ...

Article: Afghan Journalist to Be Freed; Magazine Editor Apologizes to ...
The Washington Post;  December 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... gaining his freedom, however, Ali Mohaqeq Nasab had to confront an agonizing choice ... months to retract his comments, Nasab told an appeals court this week that ... hard-liners here had called for Nasab's death; free speech advocates ...

Article: Post-Taliban Free Speech Blocked by Courts, Clerics; Jailed ...
The Washington Post;  December 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ...When Ali Mohaqeq Nasab returned to Afghanistan last year after ... charges and facing possible execution. Nasab's case has ignited fierce debate over ... sermon several months later denouncing Nasab as an infidel. Nasab reported the incident ...

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Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  July 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... just as important, according to Paul Marshall, of Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom. Journalist Ali Mohaqeq Nasab was jailed for his work with Women's Rights magazine in Kabul. Among his many sins, the liberal Shiite cleric had ...

Article: Do nations truly support free speech?
Capital (Annapolis);  December 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... want to put him to death - Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, the Afghan editor already sentenced ... decision made by the lower court on Mohaqeq Nasab will in no way satisfy the public ... Kabul's chief prosecutor. "Nasab must be punished more severely ...