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Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh is appealing his sentence without the benefit of an attorney because, he says, he has done nothing wrong, The Telegraph reported Monday.

Kambakhsh was sentenced to death in a provincial court in January after being given only three minutes to answer the charges against him.

Government prosecutors accused Kambakhsh of downloading an Iranian newspaper article that questioned several tenets of Islam, including those relating to the rights of women.

Prosecutors said he added three paragraphs of his own to the article before distributing it to classmates at Balkh University, where he is a student and reporter for a local newspaper.

During the past two years, press freedom in Afghanistan has come under increasing pressure from the country's conservative religious establishment.

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