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March 28, 2006
Afghanistan: Apostate From Islam Is Freed
News breaking from ITV.com, the Telegraph, from Associated Press via the Toronto Star and Italy's AKI relates that Abdul Rahman (pictured left), the man who had been facing a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity, has finally been officially freed.
Mohammed Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan's Justice Minister, announced that Mr Rahman has been freed. "He is not in detention," he said. The case was officially dropped due to "gaps in evidence", though in reality, Afghanistan was forced to succumb to international pressure, mainly coming from the US and Canada, where the case has caused the greatest public outrage.
The question now remains of his safety. Clerics (pictured below) have threatened to incite Afghanis to have 41-year old Rahman killed, in line with the barbarism of their interpretation of faith and Sharia law.
According to AKI, Afghanistan's deputy attorney general Eshaq Aloko said Mr Rahman is currently with justice ministry officials, and will be undergoing tests to confirm his unsuitability for trial. The argument that he is mentally ill is widely seen by many as a face-saving exercise by the Afghani authorities.
On Friday 25 March, Mr Rahman had been moved to detention in Kabul's high-security Policharki prison, home to many Taliban militant prisoners. In his police detention prior to transfer to jail, Mr Rahman had received death threats from other detainees.
In the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif a large protest lasted for about two hours, with protesters chanting "Death to Bush!" and other anti-Western slogans. This protest was to express anger at the court's decision to drop the case.
The United Nations had announced before his official "release" that Mr Rahman had requested asylum outside Afghanistan. Adrian Edwards, a UN representative, said that his organisation was in conference with the AFghan government to resolve the issue of asylum.
AKI states that Italy's foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini is requesting that his country take in Mr Rahman as an asylum seeker. Mr Fini was spoke earlier this morning with Ettore Francesco Sequi, Italy's ambassador to Kabul, about the case.
This story will not be concluded successfully until Mr Rahman is outside of Afghanistan and beyond the clutches of its hate-filled and bloodthirsty imams.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 28, 2006 6:16 AM
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