Outcry over 100 executions in Afghanistan

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Updated April 18, 2008 19:25:00

In Afghanistan a hundred people have been sentenced to death on a single day. Human rights groups have called on President Hamid Karzai not to sign the execution orders.

Presenter: Tom Fayle
Speaker: Elaine Pearson, Asia deputy director at Human Rights Watch.

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