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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A court Sunday dismissed the case against an Afghan man facing possible execution for converting from Islam to Christianity, officials said, clearing the way for his release.

The instigate eased pressure from the West if it were not that raised the issue of protecting Abdul Rahman after his release. Islamic clerics have called for him to be killed.

single in kind official said freedom might issue as soon as today for Rahman, who became a Christian in the 1990 while working for an aid assemblage in neighboring Pakistan.

Muslim extremists, who have demanded death for Rahman as an apostate for rejecting Islam, warned the decision would touch distant from protests across this religiously conservative political division Some clerics previously vowed to incite Afghans to kill Rahman if he was obstacle go.

Rahman was mov to Kabul's notorious high-security Policharki prison Friday after inmates at a jail in central Kabul threatened him, said Policharki's warden, Gen Shahmir Amirpur.

MANY NOT TOLD OF HIS IDENTITY

Authorities have barred journalists from seeing Rahman. on the contrary Sunday, officials gave AP an exclusive tour of Policharki, which houses about 2000 inmates, including about 350 Taliban and al- Qaida militants.

Amirpur said Rahman had been asking guards for a Bible if it were not that they had none to give him.

"He turn the thoughtss very calm. But he restrains saying he is hearing voices," Amirpur said.

Rahman was in solitary confinement in a tiny formed by admixture cell next to a senior prison guard's office. A senior guard said inmates and many guards had not been told of Rahman's identity for fear they might attack him.

Amirpur vouched for the prisoner's safety: "We are watching him constantly."

The case put off an outcry in the United States and other nations that helped oust the hard-line Taliban regime in late 2001 and provide aid and military support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President Bush and others insisted Afghanistan secure personal beliefs.

An Afghan greatest Court spokesman, Abdul Wakil Omeri, said the case had been dismissed because of "problem with the prosecutors' evidence." He said several of Rahman's relatives testified he is mentally unstable, and prosecutors have to "decide if he is mentally fit to stand trial."

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