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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 09:34 PM Jan 2022

Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over 'blasphemous' WhatsApp activity

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death over allegedly blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp and Facebook.

Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was found guilty and given a death sentence by a court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday after a complaint was registered against her under Pakistan’s draconian cybercrime and blasphemy laws

According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp.

He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook account to transmit blasphemous material to other accounts. In doing so, she “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims”, according to the charge sheet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/pakistan-woman-aneeqa-ateeq-sentenced-to-death-blasphemous-whatsapp-messages
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Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over 'blasphemous' WhatsApp activity (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2022 OP
I wish some secret SWAT team could sneak in and rescue these people viva la Jan 2022 #1
I wish allegedly holy leaders would disavow and outlaw all that blasphemy BS but they make too msongs Jan 2022 #2
By doing so, aren't they insulting her religious beliefs? Cartoonist Jan 2022 #3
But we can't edhopper Jan 2022 #4

msongs

(70,172 posts)
2. I wish allegedly holy leaders would disavow and outlaw all that blasphemy BS but they make too
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 10:08 PM
Jan 2022

much $$$ from it

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