Including Pakistan, the other 13 countries are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. And Pakistan isn't alone in putting people to death for blasphemy.Īccording to the latest International Humanist and Ethical Union's Freedom of Thought report, 13 countries currently have laws on the books carrying a penalty of death for blasphemy or apostasy. Scores have been killed as a result, some even before their trials began as a result of vigilante violence. Since the 1980s, more than 1,300 have been accused of blasphemy. RELATED: Language and Religion Developed Simultaneously In 1986, yet another clause was added recommending the death penalty or life imprisonment for blasphemy against Muhammad, according to the BBC. In 1982, a separate clause was passed calling for life imprisonment for willful desecration of the Quran.
When first created in 1980, the law originally called for a maximum sentence of three years in jail. If Bibi's sentence is not overturned, she will be the first woman to be executed since blasphemy laws were enacted in Pakistan in the 1980s. Following an altercation with a Muslim women over water, Bibi insulted the prophet Muhammad, an infraction for which Bibi was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death by hanging. On Thursday, October 13, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi will face her final appeal in what has been a six-year-long ordeal on the charge of blasphemy.
0 kommentar(er)
