Pakistan overturns death sentences for Christian couple jailed on blasphemy charges
Pakistani Christians make up 1.6 per cent of the country’s population
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Pakistani Christians make up 1.6 per cent of the country’s population
Christians rejoice after court dismisses case against couple convicted of sending text messages insulting the Prophet Muhammad
Responding to the Lahore High Court’s decision to acquit Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel, a Christian couple who were sentenced to death in 2014 for ‘sending blasphemous texts’, Amnesty International’s South Asia Deputy Director Dinushika Dissanayake said:
The Lahore High Court (LHC) Thursday acquitted a couple on death row seven years after their conviction for alleged blasphemy
Pakistan drops Christian couple's death sentences for blasphemy A Christian couple in Pakistan is set to be freed after spending seven years on death row over blasphemy charges. Their acquittal comes after EU pressure. The couple was accused of sending blasphemous text messages despite claiming to be illiterate A Pakistani court dismissed blasphemy charges against a married Christian couple on Thursday, lifting the death sentence imposed by a lower court in 2014. Shafqat Emmanuel Masih and his wife Shughufta Kausar Masih were accused of sending text messages to their Muslim colleagues in wh...