Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi are convicted on the basis of the blasphemy law. In January, they were released on bail; now they are in two separate prison facilities. Extremist fringe put pressure, and perhaps corrupted police to find the right evidence to justify the conviction.
A court in Kasur district, Punjab, convicted a Christian couple, Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi, to 25 years in prison. According to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), judge Ajmal Hussein convicted the couple for touching the Qur‘an without washing their hands.
Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi were released on bail last January, but were re-arrested after the judge ruled against them. The husband was locked up in Kasur’s district prison; the wife was sent to the women’s prison in Multan. Both have started serving 25 years behind bars.
CLAAS, an association that fights for the rights of the poor and marginalised, said that the couple was accused of “contaminating” the Qur‘an when they touched it “without washing their hands”.
The incident, which dates back to December 2008, unleashed the fury of Muslim extremists who put pressure on police. Unconfirmed reports suggest that extremists paid off police agents to discover “new evidence” to justify the sentence.
At the end of the police investigation, husband and wife were charged with blasphemy.
The blasphemy law is the harshest tool for religious repression available in Pakistan. It was adopted in 1986 by then dictator Zia ul-Haq to protect Islam and its prophet, Muhammad, from attacks and insults.
In fact, it is actually comprised of sections 295-B and 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which respectively punish with life in prison anyone who defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Qur‘an, and imposes the death penalty on anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the last two months, there were two more convictions against Christians in Pakistan.
On 11 January, a court in Faisalabad sentenced Imran Masih, a 26-year-old Christian man, to life imprisonment for insulting and desecrating the Koran. He was accused of deliberately burning Qur‘anic verses and an Arabic book in order “foment interfaith hatred and hurt the feelings of Muslims.”
On 25 February, a court in Karachi sentenced Qamar David, also a Christian, to life imprisonment for hurting the religious feelings of Muslims when he sent blasphemous SMS.
CLAAS announced that it was filing an appeal with the High Court in Lahore to have the 25-year sentence against Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi overturned.
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Indeed,although after a few months in the slammer these largely imaginary prsons could easily touch a Koran again.
Such looser judges should be hanged. But before that we should ask them whether the Prophet before inviting the Kafar asked them to perform abolution or if they had to wash there hands before touching the quran. Remember quran is not only for muslims it is for the mankind.
You think Islam is bad… You should check out the Talmud!
Talk about a bigot backwards bunch of interbreeds, look no further then Khazar’s -(Ashkenazi fake Jews) who hold to the Talmud, I believe in burning the Talmud before Christian congregations.
lets burn every copy of the KORAN and make a good balti sauce….Then feed it to all the fun loving muslins we have in our world…We will get ALLAH to serve it up and mohammed can do the dishes…..Once its digested we will see its true form SHIT!! written by a bunch of fucked up interbreeds!!
what a fucked up religion!!
i totally agree islam is a disease and plagues the world…You filthy disgusting people,cut your own heads off and fuck off back to shit hole where you came from…allah rot in hell you fuckpig!!
…makes me wonder what my penalty would be for wiping my ass with the pages of the Quran? I would love to do so, after walking in with my shoes on covered in pig shit, droping my drawers and shiting on the Five Pillars !!! Come out cut my head off you godless muslim swine!
Punjab that is the place where dirty gipsy come from .
They are like a plgue they infested Europe .
Death to the gipsies !
Islam is a diseaese not unlike the plague was carried on the backs of rats,Islam is carried on the backs of Muslims.
The local muslim unions in USA are opposing full body scanner at the airport since it’s against their religion bs. These morons can have many wives legally just for the sake of having xxx. First of all, why are the airports are implementing full body scanners? Didn’t they realize all it because of muslim terrorists?
ISLAM is contrived. It has never been a “religion”. Ban Islam. See my previous link.
Islam is NOT a “religion”. It should be criminalized,ALL foreign Muslims here on Visas SENT HOME.
http://www.nmatv.com/video/618/What-Islam-Is-Not
FITNA:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=FITNA
Pakistanians are allies of the west. They were created to control the Indians and keep them occupied. So if few christians are attacked in Pakistan it is not too bad no?
It is bad.