Go ahead, keep complaining about your freedoms and government overreach and then be glad you live in the US in comparison to other countries – PB/TK
Death sentence for Facebook post amid Pakistan crackdown online – By Sophia Saifi and Ben Westcott / June 15 2017
(CNN)A Pakistan government crackdown on freedom of speech online has reached worrying new levels, activists say, after a young man was sentenced to death over a series of Facebook posts.
On Saturday, 30-year-old Taimoor Raza became the first person to receive a death sentence in a Pakistan anti-terrorism court for “using derogatory remarks … in respect of the Holy Prophet” on social media.
Amnesty International’s Pakistan campaigner, Nadia Rahman, said in a statement the conviction set a “dangerous precedent.”
“No one should be hauled before an anti-terrorism court or any other court solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief online,” she said.
Human rights advocates said 2017 has seen an unprecedented crackdown by the government on Pakistanis’ freedom of speech on the internet and in social media.
Continue to cnn.com article: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/asia/pakistan-blasphemy-facebook/index.html
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