12 year girl imprisoned for blasphemy

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sorry not a brilliant link
this shocked me, not only is she a child but has LD'S

Yes, she's 11 not 12

All sounds rather odd. Where are her parents?

it said 12 on the news last night, sorry. they said her parents were under protection.

Hooray for the religion of peace.

What kind of country would put an eleven year old with Downs in jail for burning a book.

It sounds like she has been set up.

A shithole backward country maybe?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19391460

"Her parents have been taken into protective custody following threats, and many other Christian families are reported to have fled the neighbourhood.

There are fears that even if she is released, Rimsha's family will not be safe in Pakistan. Others accused of blasphemy have been killed by vigilante mobs in the recent past. "

Sounds like some mediaeval witch-burning exercise. What's the Pakistan government doing to protect this girl or prosecute the angry mob?

Not sure whether it will help, but I've just signed an Avaz petition to be sent to the President of Pakistan.
I can link if anyone is interested.

I'm interested, rip

This is a horrible story, some areas of Pakistan seem to only recognise mob rule by the ignorant. This is very far removed from Islam and has been condemned by Islamic groups in Pakistan and elsewhere (e.g. Huffington Post

The Pakistani government should NOT be allowing this to happen. Corruption is rife in Pakistan, the police and legal system cannot be trusted to do their job properly in this case.

[[
www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_my_daughter_save_Pakistan/?bPmSobb&v=17416 hope this works]]

My parents attend a church where many parishoners have left Pakistan because of persecution.

Now the prosecution lawyer has boasted in public that if she's acquitted, Muslims will kill her anyway

Not that she has a great chance of being cleared. According to the Guardian article the court won't actually hear what the act of blasphemy was supposed to be, as repeating it would be blasphemous in itself, so they'll reach a verdict without even hearing the actual evidence.

If the judge clears her he will become a target also, it is alarming and farcical.

Disgusting, bunch of un-evolved wankers

interesting story from the BBC here

Its evil to treat a child in such a way. She must be so scared.

just saw that on the guardian website rips how utterly repugnant that man is :(

I agree with Rabid

I do hope some one puts her and her family on a plane out of there

saw the chap being arrested on the news last night. thought it was sad that his crime was blasphemy for removing pages of the Koran etc not for setting up an innocent victim. how can someone who is meant to be religious do such a terrible thing?

feel really sorry for the christians there. why can't the majority religion live and let live. just don't understand.

It really is about time that Pakistan entered the 21st century and stopped acting like it is still the middle ages.