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By Staff Reporter | February 8, 2011
Two Ahmadis Muslims from the town of Phalia near Mandi Bahaudin in Punjab have been booked into custody and charged with provisions under the anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance XX of Pakistan.
Mr Inayatullah Sabri and his son Amir Shehzad were charged under Section 298-C of Pakistan Penal Code on Friday, February 3rd, it has been learned.
According the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, a fabricated case was pushed against the two men accusing they tried to preach someone about their faith Ahmadiyyat.
The accusation also included a claim that Ahmadis offered one-million Pak Rupees to those who would convert to Ahmadiyya beliefs.
Police registered the case using the preaching and attempts to convert accusation.
Anti-Ahmadi laws are often used to settle personal scores and encourage Ahmadi persecution, it has been noted repeatedly by several rights groups and the States Department of the United States.
Commonly known as the anti-Ahmadiyya ordinance, the laws are broadly written. For example the Section 298-C of the Penal Code reads:
Any person of the Quadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves 'Ahmadis' or by any other name), who directly or indirectly, poses himself as a Muslim, or calls, or refers to, his faith as Islam, or preaches or propagates his faith, or invites others to accept his faith, by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representations, or in any manner whatsoever outrages the religious feelings of Muslims shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.
Many legal scholars have asserted the laws make the daily Ahmadi life a perpetual crime in Pakistan.
Mandi Bahauddin has been a continuous scene of horrific persecution of Ahmadī Muslims.
In October 2005, masked gunmen attacked Ahmadi Muslim worshippers in a mosque near the town of Mandi Bahauddin where eight Ahmadis were killed and 18 injured in the attack.
In 2007 a police officer killed an Ahmadī Muslim for joining the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
The murder claimed he “murdered an apostate; that is no crime.”
-- Ahmadi father, son arrested under mob pressure, charged under anti-Ahmadi laws
-- Ahmadiyya Times
-- By Imran Jattala
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