A peaceful joint Christian-Muslim protest was held in Lahore to protest the crime. Local Christian and Muslim leaders also met with the governor of Punjab about the case.
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| Site where Shahzad Masih and his wife Shama were killed and burnt by enraged Muslim mob |
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By Christian Telegraph | June 2, 2015
In Pakistan's Punjab province, 106 people have been charged with the November 2014 murder of a Christian couple, who were attacked by a lynch mob and burned alive after being accused of blasphemy, reports Catholic News Agency.
Pakistan's anti-terrorism court charged that three Muslim clerics were involved in persistent provocative speech against the couple, while local media reported the clerics stirred up over 400 people against Shahzad Masih and his wife Shama, who was pregnant with the couple's fourth child.
The Christian couple were killed and their bodies burned by a mob after they were accused of desecrating the Quran. The couple lived in Kot Radha Kishan, a city located nearly 40 miles southwest of Lahore.
Another 32 alleged participants in the lynching are still at large, BBC News reports.
A peaceful joint Christian-Muslim protest was held in Lahore to protest the crime. Local Christian and Muslim leaders also met with the governor of Punjab about the case.
Before the married couple were killed on Nov. 4, angry villagers reportedly told them to convert to Islam to make amends for their alleged crime.
The couple worked at a brick kiln, and it has been reported that the kiln owner noticed Shama burning some belongings of her recently-deceased father-in-law, and charged that some pages she burnt were from the Quran - he then detained them. They owed him money, and he refused to release them without being paid.
It was then announced from local mosques that the couple had desecrated the Quran, and a mob forced their way into the room where the Masihs were held, and beat them with bricks and shovels. Reports vary as to whether or not the couple's bodies were thrown into the kiln before or after their deaths.
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