{"id":72276,"date":"2021-01-11T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=72276"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:25:02","slug":"pakistan-court-sentences-three-to-death-for-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/72276-pakistan-court-sentences-three-to-death-for-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan court sentences three to death for blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-11_19-43-19.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has handed death sentences to three people for social media posts deemed insulting to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, under the country\u2019s blasphemy laws.<br>A fourth accused, a college teacher, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a \u201cblasphemous\u201d lecture he had delivered in the classroom, court official Istifamul Haq told DPA news agency on Friday.<br>Judge Raja Jawad announced the decision in the capital Islamabad on the charges filed in 2017, Haq said.<br>The convicted people can appeal in two higher courts to overturn their conviction or ask for mercy from the president.<br>Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy laws, a colonial legacy made more stringent by former military ruler Ziaul Haq in the 1980s, envisage death as the maximum punishment for insulting the Prophet, peace be upon him.<br>Rights activists say laws have been used against the followers of other religions and minority Muslim faiths such as Shia and Ahmadiya in the Sunni-majority country.<br>Since the 1980s, nearly 80 people have been killed by individuals or angry mobs even before their trials were concluded in courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has handed death sentences to three people for social media posts deemed insulting to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, under the country\u2019s blasphemy laws.A fourth accused, a college teacher, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a \u201cblasphemous\u201d lecture he had delivered in the classroom, court official Istifamul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,13],"tags":[2144,593,36],"class_list":["post-72276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-blasphemy","tag-death","tag-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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