Blasphemy

A Muslim man was convicted and sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in northwest Pakistan after he faced an accusation of sharing a blasphemous ...

Zeeshan, who lives in the country's northwest city of Mardan, was also slapped with a fine of Rs1.2 million ($4,300) and given 23 years of rigorous imprisonment. The “FIA had confiscated Zeeshan’s cellphone and its forensic examination proved him guilty”, he added. The court also imposed a fine of Rs1.2 million ($4,300) and gave 23 years of imprisonment to the man

The accused was arrested in the year 2021 and has been lodged inside the Peshawar Central Prison ever since.

A 2022 report by the Centre for Research and Security Studies demonstrated the volatility around the offence, even when not proven, when it revealed that “as many as 89 citizens have been killed in 1,415 accusations and cases of blasphemy” since 1947. Zeeshan was convicted under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and Anti-Terrorist Act (ATA) on Friday, March 24. Following the allegations, he was arrested in the year 2021 and has been lodged inside the Peshawar Central Prison ever since.

The convict, identified as Syed Muhammad Zeeshan, has the right to appeal against the court's conviction order on the highly-sensitive issue of blasphemy in ...

His counsel told AFP that a case was initiated after Muhammad Saeed, a resident of Talagang in Punjab province, filed an application with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) two years ago accusing Zeeshan of posting blasphemous content on a WhatsApp group. The convict, identified as Syed Muhammad Zeeshan, has the right to appeal against the court's conviction order on the highly-sensitive issue of blasphemy in Pakistan. He was convicted under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and Anti-Terrorist Act by the court in Peshawar on Friday.

Islamabad [Pakistan], March 25 (ANI): An anti-terrorism court of Pakistan on Friday convicted a man on the charges of committing blasphemy and other ...

In November last year, an anti-terrorism court convicted a man for blasphemy and other offences on social media and handed down the death sentence and a collective fine of Rs1.6 million to him, reported dawn. In the court, the judge declared that the prosecution had “fully” proved its case against the accused, a resident of Mardan and that the evidence available on record connected him with the commission of the offences. Islamabad [Pakistan], March 25 (ANI): An anti-terrorism court of Pakistan on Friday convicted a man on the charges of committing blasphemy and other religion-related offences on social media and sentenced him to death, Dawn reported.