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Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death on blasphemy charges. Lawyers say a judge in the eastern city of Lahore rejected Mohammad Zulfiqar's defense of mental illness and convicted him for violating the country's blasphemy laws of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Zulfiqar was arrested for reportedly writing derogatory language against the Prophet on the walls of a public park in the Islampura area of Lahore in April of 2008. Blasphemy carries the death penalty in...


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