Pakistan: Man gets five-year Rigorous Imprisonment for blasphemy on social media

By artappraiser on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 11:40pm |

By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh @ Dawn.com, Oct. 18

LAHORE: In a first-of-its-kind conviction in the country as claimed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), a special court for cybercrime offences on Thursday awarded five-year rigorous imprisonment to a man for posting blasphemous material on social media.

Sajid Ali was charged for posting “sacrilegious, blasphemous and derogatory material against Hazrat Umar (R.A)” on Facebook in 2017. Initially, police of Bahawalnagar’s Chishtian tehsil registered a case which was later transferred to the FIA Cyber Crime Circle Lahore over the issue of jurisdiction.

FIA Prosecutor Munam Bashir Chaudhry filed challan before the court for cybercrime offence before the convict was indicted [....]

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https://www.dawn.com/news/1511436/man-gets-five-year-ri-for-blasphemy-on-social-media