Karachi: A 22-year-old student has been sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy over WhatsApp messages, BBC reported.
A Pakistani court held that the student had prepared ‘blasphemous’ pictures and videos which contained derogatory words about Prophet Muhammad and his wives. The court ruled that the messages were intended to outrage religious feelings of Muslims.
A second student, aged 17, was sentenced to life imprisonment for sharing the ‘blasphemous’ material. The teenager escaped death sentence as he is a minor.
It was in 2022 that a complaint about the students’ messages was filed by the cybercrime unit of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore. FIA said that it had examined the students’ phones and found ‘obscene material’.
Both students denied the accusations, saying that they had been “trapped in a false case”.
The 22-year-old student’s father has filed an appeal in Lahore High Court against the lower court’s decision, according to BBC.
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