ISLAMABAD – Pakistani University Professor awarded death penalty overblasphemy charges.
A district and sessions court on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, a formeruniversity lecturer in Multan, to death on blasphemy charges.
Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of theBahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Hafeez was booked on blasphemycharges and was arrested by police on March 13, 2013. The trial of the casestarted in 2014.
According to Amnesty Internationallink,Hafeez, who was also in the process of getting a graduate degree in EnglishLiterature, was charged with blasphemy over Facebook uploads.
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Additional Sessions Judge Kashif Qayyum sentenced Hafeez to death and afine of Rs0.5 million under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC);in case of default he will undergo further imprisonment of six months.
