Down's Syndrome Girl's Arrest for Blasphemy in Pakistan

by Stephen Brown
Frontpage Magazine
August 22, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2934/down-syndrome-girl-arrest-for-blasphemy-in

Excerpt:

It is a country that appears to have lost all connection with humanity.

The latest human rights outrage in Pakistan, a country that produces so many of them, concerns the recent arrest in Islamabad of an 11-year-old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, who reportedly has Down's Syndrome. Masih is accused of having violated Pakistan's notorious blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty. The girl, according to the New York Times, had allegedly burned pages of a "religious textbook used to teach the Koran to children" and was imprisoned with her mother for this unproven allegation. The usual Muslim mob then gathered outside the jail she was in, demanding that Masih be charged, while her Christian neighbors fled their homes, fearing attacks by those same mobs.

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