Islamabad A Muslim woman was doomed to death in Pakistan on Wednesday after being condemned of transferring a impious textbook communication and caricatures of Prophet Muhammad via WhatsApp, a court said.
Sacrilege is a monstrously sensitive issue in Muslim- maturity Pakistan, and laws proscribing it can carry a implicit death judgment– although it has noway been executed for the crime.
Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was arrested in May 2020 and charged with posting” impious material”as her WhatsApp status, according to a summary issued by the court When a friend prompted her to change it, she rather encouraged the material to him, it said.
Caricatures of Mohammed are interdicted by Islam The judgment was blazoned in the garrison megacity of Rawalpindi, with the court ordering her to be” hanged by her neck till she’s dead” She was also given a 20- time jail judgment.
Up to 80 people are known to be jugged in Pakistan on sacrilege charges– half of whom face life in captivity or the death penalty– according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom While numerous cases involve Muslims criminating fellow Muslims, rights activists have advised that religious nonages– particularly Christians– are frequently caught in the crossfire, with sacrilege charges used to settle particular scores In December, a Sri Lankan plant director working in Pakistan was beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob after being indicted of sacrilege.