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God Has Heard Our Cry : Christian Man Acquitted of Blasphemy and Released from Life Sentence in Pakistan
12-15-2020
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A Christian man in Pakistan has been acquitted of blasphemy and released from prison after serving 10 years of a life sentence.
International Christian Concern (ICC) reports the Lahore High Court has acquitted Imran Ghafur Masih, a Christian sentenced to life in prison under Pakistan s blasphemy laws.
According to Imran s family, they have moved into hiding following the acquittal due to potential threats from Islamic extremists.
The high court reached its decision in Imran s case on Dec. 15 and ordered him to be immediately released. The development came as a shock to Imran s family.
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ALL OVER the world, people are being attacked, imprisoned, tortured and occasionally executed on the grounds that they have said or done something which offends somebody else’s religious belief. Usually it is the state which punishes such acts of blasphemy, though often violent mobs make it their business, and the two forms of retribution cannot fully be separated. That is the gloomy picture painted by a new report on blasphemy laws by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan body charged by both Congress and the president with monitoring liberty of conscience across the world.
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