Pakistan court hands death sentence to lecturer accused of blasphemy
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at Multan's Bahauddin Zakariya University, was charged with committing blasphemy, on Facebook and in person, against Prophet Muhammad and the Quran. He was imprisoned in 2013, and after six years, during which his lawyer was murdered and his judges changed eight times, he has been sentenced to death by a court in Multan, a decision lamented by human rights agencies and activists around the world.
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