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Pakistan women s day organisers receive death threats
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Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP)
Organisers of Pakistan s International Women s Day rallies have received death threats after a vicious smear campaign saw doctored images of the event circulate online.
Thousands took part in marches across the country on Monday calling for women s rights, but fake images of the events quickly went viral in deeply conservative Pakistan, appearing even on popular television shows.
In one clip, the sound was altered to suggest participants in Karachi were chanting blasphemous slogans against the Prophet Mohammed an act which carries the death penalty in Pakistan.
Organisers in Karachi were threatened online, while high-profile figures in Lahore received serious death threats via email, telephone and text messages
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