Wah! Damn Jia lat!.

"The kidnappers of an Italian journalist in Afghanistan have offered to free him in exchange for a Christian convert who fled the country, an aid agency says.

Photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized last week while travelling on a bus in southern Afghanistan.

The kidnappers will free Mr Torsello, a Muslim convert, if Abdul Rahman returns from Italy where he was granted asylum earlier this year, the aid agency says.
Mr Rahman had escaped a possible death sentence for becoming a Christian. "

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Will they(Italian Authorities) actually meet the kidnappers' demands by handing over Mr Abdul Rahman?

Is it fair to cause someone to walk to his death (assuming that the death sentence is in effect against the christian convert) in order to save another person's life?

It is not a demand that a decent human being would ever consider," the politician, Rocco Buttiglione, told the BBC.

"We are not ready to offer one human life for another human life... It is barbarian, inhuman, and it grinds against any accepted convention on human rights."

What about Mr. Torsello then?