Masih, 34, was sentenced in May 2007 in the city of Lahore for making "derogatory remarks" about Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
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By Stefan J. Bos | April 3, 2013
LAHORE, PAKISTAN - BosNewsLife)-- A Pakistani appeals court on Wednesday, April 3, overturned the conviction and death sentence of Younis Masih, a Christian man who spent nearly eight years behind bars on charges of 'blasphemy', a lawyer involved in the case told BosNewsLife.
Masih, 34, was sentenced in May 2007 in the city of Lahore for making "derogatory remarks" about Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
"However the Lahore High Court declared him innocent of the charges and ordered his release," said attorney Sardar Mushtaq Gill of advocacy group Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD).
Gill, who witnessed the ruling, told BosNewsLife that Masih will also not have to pay a fine of some 100,000 Pakistani rupees ($1,000), a huge amount in impoverished Pakistan. He said the young man was expected to embrace his wife and four children later Wednesday, April 3.
His anticipated release ends an ordeal that began in 2005 when Lahore police first detained him after Muslims complained that he asked them to turn down the volume of Islamic Mystical Sufi Music. [... more ...]
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Stefan J. Bos is Chief International Correspondent with BosNewsLife Asia Service
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