Death sentence for Pakistani lecturer in blasphemy case prompts outcry
Amnesty describes verdict in Junaid Hafeez’s trail as ‘vile and gross miscarriage of justice’
A Pakistani university lecturer has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that his family and human rights groups have decried as a gross miscarriage of justice.
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) in the central Pakistani city of Multan, had been accused of running a secret Facebook group and having insulted the prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an in 2013.