Rights Groups to Appeal Blasphemy Sentence
From Times Wire Reports
Human rights groups plan to appeal the death sentence of a doctor convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan, activists said.
Sheik Mohammed Younus, 45, was given the death penalty for making insulting remarks about Islam’s prophet Muhammad. He also was fined $1,500.
Younus, who like the majority of Pakistanis is Sunni Muslim, was arrested in October after 11 of his students complained about a lecture he gave at a private homeopathic college in the capital, Islamabad.
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