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Pakistan Sentences Man to Death for Blasphemy on Facebook

posted by martyb on Monday June 12 2017, @06:03AM   Printer-friendly

BK writes:

From Reuters:

A Pakistani counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a government prosecutor said on Sunday, the first time someone has been handed the death penalty for blaspheming on social media.

[...] Shafiq Qureshi, public prosecutor in Bahawalpur, about 500km (300 miles) south of provincial capital Lahore, said Raza was convicted for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad, his wives and companions.

"An anti terrorism court of Bahawalpur has awarded him the death sentence," Qureshi told Reuters." It is the first ever death sentence in a case that involves social media."

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @09:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @09:13AM (#524220)

    Well, at least we now know where the line is for resident authoritarians.

    Spying on your own population? Sure.
    Indefinite jailing? No problem.
    Creating fake terror plots to trap and convict mentally ill people? Yeah, go ahead.
    Bombing other countries into oblivion? Good.
    Killing civilians, including women and children, because they were in the vicinity of someone that kind of looks like a terror suspect? Great!
    Executing a person for blasphemy? HOLD YOUR HORSES! OUTRAGEOUS! BARBARIANS!

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday June 12 2017, @07:35PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday June 12 2017, @07:35PM (#524611) Journal

    Well, at least we now know where the line is for resident authoritarians.

    Given that I'm not an authoritarian, I wonder how my post would give any information about authoritarians.

    Spying on your own population? Sure.
    Indefinite jailing? No problem.
    Creating fake terror plots to trap and convict mentally ill people? Yeah, go ahead.
    Bombing other countries into oblivion? Good.
    Killing civilians, including women and children, because they were in the vicinity of someone that kind of looks like a terror suspect? Great!

    Please, point me to a single post where I expressed acceptance of any of those.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:28PM (#524710)

      I doubt it was a direct response to you, maybe piggy backing off your sarcasm? Also, you forgot to bold "awarded", cause that sounds like a pretty shitty award to win.