Bahawalpur court hands down death sentence to man for blasphemous Facebook posts

Sun, June 18, 2017

BAHAWALPUR: 

A man was handed down the death penalty by an anti-terrorism court (ATC)  in Bahawalpur on Friday over charges of committing blasphemy.

The Counter-Terrorism Department Multan had registered a case against Taimoor Raza over accusations of posting blasphemous material on Facebook.

He was arrested and presented before the ATC in Bahawalpur. During trial, he was found guilty of committing blasphemy and was sentenced to death.

The petitioner, who is said to be a college professor, wrote in the bail application that he had no connection with spreading any blasphemous content through the social media. In the petition, he claimed that he was innocent and urged the court to grant his bail.

Published in Express Tribune on 10th June, 2017

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