From AP via CTV.ca:

President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan accused of insulting Islam, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday. ...

The journalist, 23-year-old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, was sentenced to death on Jan. 22 by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at Balkh University.

The article asked why under Islam men can have four wives but women cannot have multiple husbands. ...

"There is a judicial process ongoing," said Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for Karzai. "Of course the president is concerned. We are watching the situation very closely."

The government will act only after the courts make their final decision, Hamidzada told a news conference. Any action will be in line with the Afghan constitution, international obligations and respect for human rights, he said.