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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @02:57PM
The obvious reason being that:
- if I am wrong, there is no reason
- if I am right, anybody participating in the investigation runs a serious risk of ending up dead, their friends maimed and their family raped. Or something to that effect.
The only thing an investigation under these circumstances will turn up is that, yes, that guy was a total blasphemer and it's A-OK to kill him. Which is totally believable (sarcasm!).
For _that_ kind of investigation, I am not going to eat a sheet of paper ...