Pak courtroom awards demise sentence, 80-year-imprisonment to 4 individuals for importing blasphemous content material on Fb

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Pak court awards death sentence, 80-year-imprisonment to four persons for uploading blasphemous content on Facebook

LAHORE: A Pakistani courtroom has awarded a demise sentence and 80-year imprisonment to 4 individuals for importing blasphemous content material on Fb, an official stated on Saturday. Further Classes Choose Mohammad Tariq Ayub on Friday convicted 4 suspects — Wajid Ali, Ahfaq Ali Saqib, Rana Usman and Suleman Sajid — for insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his companions, and his wives.
The courtroom official stated the convicts uploaded blasphemous content material on Fb from 4 completely different IDs.
“The choose after listening to arguments of each prosecution and defence and witnesses accounts awarded the demise penalty and 80 years imprisonment to every of them on completely different counts,” the official stated.
They have been additionally slapped with a advantageous of PKR 5.2 million.
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation (FIA) Cybercrime registered a case below Part 11 of the PECA (Prevention of Digital Crimes Act) and 295A, 295B, 295C, 298A, 109 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the grievance of Shiraz Farooqi, a citizen.
In accordance with Amnesty Worldwide, Pakistan’s blasphemy legal guidelines are sometimes used in opposition to spiritual minorities and others who’re the goal of false accusations, whereas emboldening vigilantes ready to threaten or kill the accused.
“There’s overwhelming proof that Pakistan’s blasphemy legal guidelines violate human rights and encourage individuals to take the legislation into their very own arms. As soon as an individual is accused, they grow to be ensnared in a system that provides them few protections, presumes them responsible, and fails to safeguard them in opposition to individuals prepared to make use of violence,” it stated.
Amnesty Worldwide added that in perversion of the justice system, the accused are sometimes presumed to be responsible primarily based on little or no proof.
“As soon as an accusation of blasphemy is made, the police can arrest the accused, with out even checking to see if the fees make sense. Bowing to public stress from indignant crowds, together with spiritual clerics and their supporters, they regularly cross instances on to prosecutors with out scrutinising the proof. And as soon as somebody is charged, they are often denied bail and face prolonged and unfair trials,” it stated.



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