Posts Tagged ‘sentenced to death by hanging’
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Egyptian Muslim sentenced to death by hanging for killing Christians
In an unprecedented ruling, the State Security Court in Egypt sentenced a Muslim man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and one Muslim policeman during a Christmas mass one year ago in Nag Hammadi city. Mohammed Ahmed H...
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Pakistan prime minister will not amend blasphemy law, Bibi transfers jails
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said recently that the blasphemy law will be retained just the way it is. In his address to religious scholars at the Ulema and Mashaikh Conference 2011 in Islamabad, Gilani assured th...
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Christian woman in Pakistan sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy
A Christian wife and mother in Pakistan has been sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, 45, was also fined some $1,135—about two and a half year’s earnings for a farm worker—for saying defamatory statements abo...