Islamabad, Jan 27, 2025 (AFP) - Pakistan court sentences 4 men to death for 'online blasphemy'

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2025-01-27

A Pakistan court has sentenced four men to death for posting blasphemous content online, a member of a group of "vigilante" private lawyers that brought the prosecution said on Monday. The four men were sentenced in Rawalpindi, the garrison city that neighbours the capital Islamabad, Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer from the Legal Commission on Blasphemy Pakistan (LCBP), told AFP. Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where eve......

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