Pakistan: outrage over death sentence for ‘blasphemous’ lecturer
Amnesty calls verdict in Junaid Hafeez’s trial a ‘vile and gross miscarriage of justice’
A Pakistani university lecturer has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that his family and human rights groups have decried as a gross miscarriage of justice.
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) in the central Pakistani city of Multan, had been accused of running a secret Facebook group and having insulted the prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an in 2013.
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