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India-Pakistan
Couple sentenced to death for blasphemy
2014-04-06
[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy and fined them Rs100,000 each.

Shafqat Maseeh, watchman of Gojra's Saint Cathedral School, and his wife Shagufta Maseeh were jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on July 25 last year under Section 295C on the charge of sending blasphemous text messages to the complainants, shopkeeper Malik Mohammad Hussain and Gojra tehsil bar's former president Anwar Mansoor Goraya.

The verdict was announced by additional district and sessions judge Amer Habib.

The case was heard in the district jail.

The couple confessed to have sent the messages.
Posted by:Fred

#1  A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy

Here, they just fire them, or force them to take pictures at weddings or bake a wedding cake. Thus they consider it being 'tolerant'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-04-06 11:05  

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