{"id":21138,"date":"2020-07-30T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/29\/pakistani-man-tahir-ahmed-naseem-blasphemy-laws-shot-dead-in-peshawar-court"},"modified":"2020-07-30T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:01:01","slug":"man-on-trial-for-blasphemy-shot-dead-in-court-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21138","title":{"rendered":"Man on trial for blasphemy shot dead in court in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tahir Ahmed Naseem is latest victim of violence connected to blasphemy laws<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani man on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom, in the latest violent incident connected with the country\u2019s blasphemy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Tahir Ahmed Naseem had been in prison since his arrest in 2018, allegedly after claiming he was a prophet. He is a member of the Ahmedi sect, which is persecuted in Pakistan where they have officially been declared non-Muslims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/29\/pakistani-man-tahir-ahmed-naseem-blasphemy-laws-shot-dead-in-peshawar-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tahir Ahmed Naseem is latest victim of violence connected to blasphemy lawsA Pakistani man on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom, in the latest violent incident connected with the country\u2019s blasphemy laws.Tahir Ahmed Naseem had been &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[447,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions\/21139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}