Um casal cristão foi espancado até a morte por uma multidão enraivecida
no Paquistão depois de terem sido acusados de profanar o Alcorão (o
livro sagrado dos muçulmanos).
De acordo com a polícia local, eles foram linchados sob a acusação de profanar o Alcorão, o livro sagrado do islamismo
A polícia paquistanesa deteve 43
pessoas por envolvimento na morte, por espancamento, de um casal cristão
acusado de profanar um exemplar do Corão no noroeste do Paquistão.
Os detidos vivem na localidade de Kot Radha Kishan, na província do Punjab, onde ocorreram as mortes, na terça-feira, numa fábrica de tijolos, em cujo forno foram queimados os corpos, referiu um porta-voz da polícia, Bin Yameen.
O porta-voz adiantou que a polícia procura o responsável da fábrica pelo
seu presumível envolvimento no ataque ao casal, levado a cabo por "um
grande número" de pessoas.
O Paquistão possui uma controversa legislação anti-blasfémia que castiga
qualquer desprezo contra os símbolos sagrados do Islão e que é muitas
vezes aplicada de forma arbitrária.
Incidentes envolvendo acusações de blasfémia, muitas vezes com atos de
violência perpetrados por multidões, são frequentes no Paquistão, país
onde 97% da população é muçulmana.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani police say
they have arrested up to 40 people in connection with the killing of a
Christian couple in Punjab province who were beaten, then pushed into a
burning kiln after being accused of desecrating the Quran.
Local police officials
said a mob from neighboring villages formed Tuesday after a local mullah
declared the couple were guilty of blasphemy.
The mob allegedly marched
to the couple's home, broke down their door, dragged them outside, beat
them and threw them into the brick kiln where they both worked.
The attack happened in
the town of Kot Radha Kishan, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest
of Lahore, the capital of Punjab. Police officials identified the woman
as Shyman Bibi Urf Shamar, and her husband as Sajjad Nasir Zurjah Nazir
Nasir.
Rage, grief after killing of Christian couple
The Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), which dispatched a team to the scene,
said in a statement that the couple had three young children -- two sons
and a daughter, and indicated the slain woman was pregnant. HRCP is shocked and saddened beyond words by the callous murder of the couple and their unborn child.
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan "HRCP is shocked and saddened beyond words by the callous murder of the couple and their unborn child," the group said.
According to the statement, the HRCP team "did not come across any evidence of desecration of the Holy Quran."
Desecration of the Quran is punishable by death or life imprisonment under Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law.
Human rights groups have
long urged the country to repeal the law, arguing that it has led to
discrimination, persecution and murder.
It is often used to settle personal vendettas, rights groups say, and people accused of the committing the crime are frequently targeted by mob violence.
That, according to the
HRCP, appeared to be the situation in Kot Radha Kishan, and that the
incident stemmed with a dispute over money the kiln's owners said the
couple owed them.
An accusation that the
couple had desecrated the Quran "was spread to nearby villages and
announcements [were] made through mosque loudspeakers," the HRCP said.
The mob that went to the kiln was estimated at around 500 people, the rights group said, citing local police.
The HRCP said its team
learned that four policemen went to the kiln to demand that the couple
be handed over for protection from the mob, but that the owners
"instructed their employees not to hand the couple over and the
policemen were also beaten up."
The kiln's owners were among those arrested, the rights group said, quoting police.
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