Friday will mark the sixth anniversary of the savage beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamist extremists in Pakistan.

His father Judea Pearl offers these thoughts on journalism in a Wall Street Journal commentary:

Journalist Sayed Yacoub Ibrahimi writes a first-person story about his brother, Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, sentenced to death by a court in northern Afghanistan for blasphemy.

From the BBC:

The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan.