The court reduced the sentence of Nasab, the editor of the Haqoq-e-Zan (Women's Rights) monthly, to a six-month suspended sentence after Nasab apologized over articles in his magazine that questioned laws against converting to other religions and punishments
for crimes such as adultery.
The independent Journalists Association of Afghanistan said even the nearly three months Nasab spent in prison was too severe a penalty. Conservative clerics originally demanded the death penalty.
(AFP)
