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The agribusiness team plans many future missions with the Paktya reconstruction team
in order to strengthen the bonds between the two teams and provide redundancy
between the teams. The teams are also working to build stronger bonds between the
GIRoA and the citizens across the province of Paktiya. (NATO News Release)
Two Afghans accused of converting to Christianity, including a Red Cross employee,
could face the death penalty, a prosecuting lawyer said on Sunday.
Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, are being detained in the Afghan capital awaiting
trial, the prosecutor in charge of western Kabul, Din Mohammad Quraishi, told AFP.
"They are accused of conversion to another religion, which is considered a crime under
Islamic law. If proved, they face the death penalty or life imprisonment," Quraishi said.
Advertisement: Story continues below Quraishi said Sayed, who works for the
International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) had already confessed and there was
"proof" against Shah.
The ICRC's spokesman in Kabul, Bijan Frederic Farnoudi, confirmed Sayed's arrest and
said the detained man had worked for the organisation since 1995.
Farnoudi said ICRC representatives had visited Sayed in prison "in accordance with its
mandate".
"During such visits, the ICRC has met Mr Musa (Sayed) several times and intends to visit
him in future," Farnoudi said.
Sayed and Shah were arrested in late May and early June, days after local television
broadcast footage of men reciting Christian prayers in Farsi and being baptised,
apparently in a house in Kabul.
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