Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Sentence: Death
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Abdul Alim Khamoosh is imprisoned and sentenced to death for his religious expression.
In 2025, Afghan authorities arrested Khamosh, a teacher in Paktika, for allegedly telling students that science was more important than religious studies.
In July 2025, a Taliban court sentenced him to death for “insulting Sharia and the Prophet of Islam.”