Prosecutors in Pakistan have been told to show that the digital evidence used to convict Junaid Hafeez is both admissible and authentic. The former lecturer has been on death row for blasphemy since 2019, and his appeal has been waiting since 2020.
In September alone, one Ahmadi was shot dead and two others were wounded in Pakistan's Punjab province, with no arrests reported. Meanwhile, the country's Federal Constitutional Court found the time to uphold a ban on the community's sacred texts. Priorities.
Two Christians in Pakistan now face charges under the country's blasphemy laws, among them Section 295-C, which is punishable by death. One man is accused of insulting Muhammad in speech, the other of sharing a video online.
Samuel Arif, a 26-year-old Christian, is on judicial remand in Lahore on blasphemy charges after residents beat him and police took him into custody. His family says a personal feud, not any insult to religion, lies behind the accusation.
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