Christian man in Pakistan sentenced to be hanged for blaspheming Mohammed – By Storm Gifford (NY Daily News) / Sept 9 2020
A Pakistani man has been sentenced to die for blasphemy.
On Tuesday, Christian factory worker Asif Pervaiz was sentenced to be hanged after his supervisor accused him of defamatory text messages regarding the Muslim prophet Mohammed, reported Deutsche Welle.
In the southeast Asian nation of more than 210 million inhabitants, in which more than 95% of citizens practice Islam, communicating insulting remarks about Mohammed carries a mandatory death penalty.
After a seven-year trial in Lahore, the 37-year-old defendant was convicted and ordered to be “hanged by his neck (until) his death.”
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