ICC Note: On July 15, a Christian man who is a sanitary worker in Hyderabad was accused of blasphemy by a Muslim man who was later confirmed to be deranged. The Muslim man publicly shouted accusations against the Christian, claiming that he had thrown in Quranic pages in with the trash. He was not arrested or prosecuted though since other Muslims from the village came and protected him, knowing the Muslim man to be deranged. There are many Christians in Pakistan who are not as fortunate as this man; the country’s blasphemy laws and their misapplication have caused severe persecution of many Christians in Pakistan.

07/30/2016, Hyderabad, India (Christians in Pakistan) – Christian legal expert Advocate Sooba Bhatti conducted a probe into fallacious blasphemy accusation on a Christian sanitary worker Yaqoob Masih. In keeping with his report, 59-years-old Yaqoob is resident of Joseph Christian colony Unit No. 10 Latifabad Hyderabad, Sindh. He is an employee of Taluka Municipal Administration (TMA) Latifabad Hyderabad.

Advocate Sooba Bhatti, in his fact-finding report said that the incident happened on July 15 at 6:30 am. Yaqoob who was on his way to perform his routine duties came across a 43-year-old, mentally deranged man who was beating another man on the road. When the ferocious assaulter saw Yaqoob he started bashing him while yelling, “Bhangi.”

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