Posted by on December 21, 2019 11:33 am
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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.

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