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February 17, 2008

Transfer could be step to freedom for jailed journalist

By paulmcnally

Pervez Kambaksh, the imprisoned Afghan journalism student sentenced to death, is reportedly to be moved to another prison, in Kabul.

Family members have told the Independent that Kambaksh is to be transferred, in what the paper describes as “a step towards his eventual release”.

An Independent campaign to get Kambaksh freed has attracted 86,000 signatures.

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