Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A Pakistani court has sentenced a Muslim woman to death for committing “blasphemy” by sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives, also considered a holy personage by many Muslims.

The trial court in the northern Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Wednesday sentenced Aneeqa Ateeq under the country’s strict blasphemy laws, which impose a mandatory death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’ | Religion News | Al Jazeera

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