“Members of religious minorities in Pakistan live with the constant threat of being accused of blasphemy. They know that if they are accused, they cannot count on a serious investigation.”
Source/Credit: Adventist.Org /ANN
By Elizabeth Lechleitner | July 30, 2013
A court in Pakistan this month sentenced a Seventh-day Adventist man to life in prison for allegedly defaming the Prophet Muhammad in a case that falls under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.
Sajjad Masih, 29, was convicted of sending blasphemous text messages to a member of a religious extremist group in 2011, despite his accuser’s subsequent retraction and prosecutors’ failure to produce any evidence of his involvement. Javed Sahotra, Masih’s defense attorney and fellow Adventist Church member, said the judge buckled under pressure from extremists who dominate the local religious and political landscape.
John Graz, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Adventist world church, said Masih’s case is not unusual.
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