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Six people were sentenced yesterday to death and dozens more to prison by a Pakistani court for the public murder of a Sri Lankan factory executive accused of blasphemy.
The lynching of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana on baseless allegations of blasphemy by factory workers had angered many locals.
The Lahore anti-terrorism court, set up inside a high-security prison, sentenced nine people to life in prison and two to two years in prison, according to the public prosecutor, according to the Al Jazeera network.
Diyawadana was barbarically killed by factory workers in Sialkot in the east of the country last December.
The issue of basfemia has always been delicate in Pakistan as any suggestion of insults to the Islamic religion could provoke large protests and incite crowds to execute the accused, even without concrete evidence.
Hafiz Israr ul Haq, the lawyer of one of the death row inmates, called the verdict “unfair”.
“This was a case of mob violence and the role of no individual can be accurately determined,” he told AFP.
Shortly before the murder word had spread in the factory collective that Diyawadana had removed a religious poster from the wall and thrown it in the trash.
Severe scenes of massacre were spread on social networks, where the crowd beat him cheering against blasphemy.
This is not the first time such events have occurred as in 2017, crowds lynched Mashal Khan University student when he was accused of posting blasphemous content online.
A couple had been killed earlier in the Punjab province in 2014 when they were falsely accused of desecrating the holy book of the Qur’an.
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