According to AHRC statement, the victim was tortured in the police station and two different prisons for no other reason than being a member of the Shia sect.
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| Televengalist, Aamir Liaquat Hussain |
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights' Commission
By Imran Jattala | April 19, 2013
A young Shia is charged with blasphemy -- the judge and police demanded bribes for his release
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says they have received information that a young man is facing trial on blasphemy charges because he did not pay a bribe to the police and a judge of the anti-terrorism court (ATC).
According to AHRC, the witnesses in the case did not identify the victim, Mr. Hamid Hussain, 25, as the main accused and "even the sketches made by the investigators did not resemble him."
"However," the Commission said, "being a person from the Shia Muslim sect the police implicated him in order to get huge amounts in bribes."
According to AHRC statement, Hamid Hussain was tortured at the police station and in two different prisons for no other reason than being a member of the Shia sect.
"They blackmailed his parents to bribe police officers threatening that the victim would face a blasphemy charge," the Commission wrote in their statement.
The victim is the nephew of a flamboyant televangelist Aamir Liaquat Hussain who, according to AHRC, 'preaches Islam' on Pakistani TV channels.
Aamir Liaquat Hussaim gained fame for allegedly preaching hatred and inciting killing of Ahmadis, a persecuted minority in Pakistan.
In 2008, shortly after a broadcast of Geo TV's "Aalim Online", in which Aamir Liaquat and his religious co-pennalists declared Ahmadis "infidels" and advised fundamentalist Muslims that infidel are worthy of death, two Ahmadis were murdered in Sind, Pakistan.
Aamir Liaquat Hussain, the AHRC statement stated, refused to help his nephew fearing that he too would be accused of being a Shia and may lose his position at the Television network.
Aamir Liaquat himself has been accused of blasphemous and controversial preaching, including allegations of making insulting remarks against the companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) in a YouTube video.
Aamir Liaquat has disassociated himself from the victim for the fear of being labeled as the uncle of a blasphemer, it was reported.
Read AHRC report here: Read
-- Pakistan: Nephew of flamboyant preacher Aamir Liaquat caught up in blasphemy row
-- Ahmadiyya Times / Asian Human Rights' Commission
-- By Imran Jattala. Follow on Twitter: @IJattala
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These ppl r fulfiling the prophesies of The Holy Prophet pbuh. The mullah will give fire to ppl and it will come back at them. (Hadith) .
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