A 26-year-old Muslim woman in Rawalpindi has been sentenced to death for posting blasphemous material on her WhatsApp status, reports Dawn.
The court ordered that the woman must be “hanged by her neck till she is dead”. She was also given a 20-year jail sentence and a fine of approximately Rs200,000.
She was arrested in May 2020 on the complaint of Muhammad Hasnat Farooq in the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) Cyber Crime Wing.
According to the United States (US) Commission on International Religious Freedom, up to 80 people are jailed in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy.
In December, a Sri Lankan factory manager working in Sialkot was beaten to death and later burnt by a mob in broad light after being accused of blasphemy.
