Pakistani Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam
The Christian Post reports that a Pakistani court has sentenced a Christian man to death for sending “blasphemous” text messages to Muslim clerics, according to a report.
According to UCA News, the Lahore High Court in Punjab province has revised the 2013 sentencing of the Christian man, Sajjad Masih, from life in prison to death.
A Muslim advocate, Zeeshan Ahmed Awan, celebrated the decision to give Masih the death sentence.
“Honourable Lahore High Court has accepted our prosecution argument that “capital sentence is the only possible sentence in blasphemy, and imprisonment for life, though provided in the law, awarded by a trial court, is illegal,” the lawyer wrote on Facebook.
Source: christianpost.com
