Persecution in Pakistan


January

Pakistani Christians' Blasphemy Appeal Set For Friday: "Jailed without bail since June 1999, Rasheed and Saleem Masih were accused of slandering the Muslim prophet Mohammed during an argument with an ice cream vendor. The incident occurred in the Pasrur region of northeastern Pakistan, when the Muslim vendor refused to serve the two Christians from the same bowls used by Muslims. Tomorrow's defense appeal is expected to expose a number of discrepancies between the testimony of the original plaintiff, Maqsood Ahmed, and that of other prosecution witnesses. Although the initial complaint to the police only reported a fistfight, when a formal accusation was filed six days later, the accuser claimed that the two had committed blasphemy. According to CLAAS investigators, however, the Muslim plaintiffs carried a grudge against the two brothers after losing a civil land dispute against them. Although litigation documents were submitted which proved one of the prosecution witnesses had lied about this to the court, the evidence was ignored in the lower court judgment.


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