Pakistan urged to free schoolboy arrested for blasphemy

BBC News
February 3, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1118/pakistan-urged-to-free-schoolboy-arrested-for

Excerpt:

Human Rights Watch has called on the Pakistani government to release a teenager who has been charged under the country's controversial blasphemy law.

Muhammad Samiullah, 17, is under arrest in the southern city of Karachi.

He is accused of blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad in an examination paper. Human Rights Watch called the boy's case "truly appalling".

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