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Supporters of the non secular and political social gathering TLP protest towards what they are saying the blasphemous remarks by the chief justice of Pakistan, in Karachi, February 23, 2024. (Reuters)
A provincial court docket in Punjab mentioned he had shared blasphemous photos and movies with the intention to outrage the non secular emotions of Muslims
A Pakistani court docket has sentenced a 22-year-old pupil to demise for blasphemy over insulting WhatsApp messages about “Prophet Muhammad and his wives.”
A provincial court docket within the nation’s most populous area discovered him responsible of sharing blasphemous photos and movies supposed to outrage the non secular sentiments of Muslims, BBC reported. In the identical case, a 17-year-old obtained a life imprisonment sentence. Each defendants have denied the allegations.
Notoriously, blasphemy carries the demise penalty in Pakistan, with some people even lynched earlier than their trials. This Punjab province case comes lower than a month after an offended mob accused a girl of blasphemy for sporting a gown adorned with Arabic calligraphy, mistaken for Quran verses.
The most recent grievance originated from the cybercrime unit of the nation’s Federal Investigation Company (FIA) in Lahore, which referred the case to a neighborhood court docket in Gujranwala. Within the ruling, Pak judges decided that the 22-year-old ready pictures and movies containing derogatory content material about Prophet Muhammad and his wives, resulting in his demise sentence.
The youthful defendant obtained life imprisonment for sharing the fabric. The FIA confirmed the receipt of “obscene materials” by the plaintiff, extracted from three completely different cell phone numbers. Protection attorneys argued that the scholars had been ensnared in a fabricated case. The daddy of the death-row convict, whose identification stays undisclosed, introduced plans to file an enchantment within the Lahore Excessive Courtroom. The minor defendant obtained life imprisonment as a substitute of capital punishment.
Blasphemy legal guidelines within the Islamic nation had been initially launched throughout British rule and expanded below the navy authorities within the Eighties. In a separate incident final August, quite a few church buildings and houses had been set ablaze in Jaranwala following accusations towards two Christian males for damaging the Quran. Final month, tons of of supporters from Pakistani Islamist events on Friday rallied to protest towards what they are saying had been blasphemous remarks by the nation’s chief justice.
The protest name, led by hardline Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) whose rallying cry is “demise to blasphemers”, mentioned that remarks by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa in a case towards a member of the minority Ahmadi group had been blasphemous. The court docket had granted bail to an Ahmadi group member in February, ruling that blasphemy costs towards him didn’t stand. The person, accused of blasphemy for distributing Islamic literature, had been in jail for 13 months.
(With company inputs)
