Pakistan (KAAB TV) – A court in Pakistan has sentenced four men to death, after they spread articles insulting religion on the Internet, according to a member of a group of “private lawyers who organized” and prosecuted this case.
The four men were sentenced in the city of Rawalpindi, a military city near the capital Islamabad, according to the AFP news agency Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer from the Law Commission for Prevention of Religious Blasphemy of Pakistan (LCBP). .
Blasphemy is a serious charge in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even unproven accusations can spark public outrage and lead to extrajudicial killings.
In Pakistan, there has been an increase in the prosecution of cases of religious blasphemy online, as certain groups are prosecuting hundreds of young people, who are accused of committing acts of religious blasphemy.
“They were sentenced to death on Friday, after they were found to have published blasphemous texts online against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Holy Quran,” said Raheem who spoke to AFP on Monday.
“Our case is bolstered by forensic evidence collected from the tools used in this heinous act,” he added while talking about one of the latest cases filed by the LCBP team.
The verdict in Pakistan has yet to kill anyone for blasphemy.