Afghanistan journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh (there are other spellings; this is the Globe's version) speaks to the Globe and Mail's Jessica Leeder about the twists his life has taken since Oct. 27, 2007, when he stood accused of blaspheming Islam -- something punishable by death in his country.

PS

Kudos to the Globe for putting this on the front page this morning.

From the BBC:

Rights groups want all charges against Mr Kambakhsh dropped

Media rights groups have condemned the 20-year jail term given to an Afghan journalism student for blasphemy.

Reporters Without Borders branded as "shameful" the ruling by an Afghan appeals court, which commuted an earlier death sentence.

The group said the trial of 24-year-old Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh was marred by what it called ideological distortion, a lack of evidence and delays.

Another watchdog called for all charges to be dropped.

The business imperative of a private, for-profit news organization has always clashed with the mission imperative of the journalists employed there.

Geneva Overholser, director of the School of Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, relays some thoughts from Adlai Wertman of USC's Marshall School of Business on a different model.

The Poynter Institute's writing guru Roy Peter Clark has an interesting column about finding one's voice as a blogger.