Save Pervez

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The Independent campaign to save Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has already attracted 13,500 signatures. But the more pressure that can be brought to bear on President Karzai, the more likely it is that his sentence will be revoked. So add your voice to the campaign by urging the Foreign Office to put all possible pressure on the Afghan government to spare his life. Sign our e-petition at www.independent.co.uk/petition

Please help this young student who has wanted to uphold womens rights in Afganistan.

Nikadi

This is a sad event, hopefully this will turn out similarily to the Nazanin fiasco in Iran last year! It's common practice in the Middle East to prosecute for this sort of thing unfortunately, and even worse is that there are thousands of teenaged girls on death row in Iran due to charges of alleged adultery. They have no say in their trials and the men can say all they wish about these girls Sad

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A religious leader on the radio (I'm not religious but consider myself Atheist) said something that struck a sympathetic note in me.

He said we should be careful not to mix up religion with politics and this I fervently feel to be true.

Also throwing in the cultural aspect clouds the issue further, and when countries are thrown into a war footing by outside forces beyond their control over an extended period as in Afghanistan and lets not forget the war triggered by the US between Iraq and Iran.

Devastating as it is to witness such terrible confusion in countries that have experienced prolonged war, we must acknowledge our part in the resulting chaos that follows.

Let us hope that this young man, a man of principle does not have to pay the price for all the wrongs done in his country that he could have had nothing whatsoever to do with.

Nikadi

Politics and religion have never gone together well, but in the Middle East it's politics are based upon religion.

A couple of weeks ago my Dad was showing me on googlemaps of where he used to live in Tehran and told me about the people who lived there and about a nice old man who owned a public pool and was killed by raiders because he was rich when that sort of thing happened everyday over there. It's a shame really Sad

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It's also fair to say that Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan were forward looking countries many years ago, what a shame they are strategically near oil routes or have oil bearing rocks themselves.

Diverting a bit but it's easy to blame people that live in a terrible place for the deprivation and strife but causes and everything should be taken into account.