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Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’

January 20, 2022

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, Aljazeera reported. The trial court in the northern Pakistani city of Rawalpindi...

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