ICC Note:

Islamic radicals are demanding the execution of a Christian teen was has been accused of posting a blasphemous image on Facebook. According to reports, the Christian boy is accused of posting a picture of Kaaba in Mecca with a dead pig on top of it. Insulting Islam in Pakistan is a serious crime and can carry the death penalty. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are often abused and false accusations of blasphemy are used to settle scores, for personal gain, or to incite religious hatred against a minority community. Will Pakistan give into the pressures of these radicals and sentence this Christian teen to death? 

10/17/2016 Pakistan (Christian Today) – An angry mob of 80 Muslims has confronted a Christian boy, demanding he is hanged.

The mob also threatened to burn his family to death for a Facebook post they claim insulted Islam.

The case is just the latest of rising persecution of Christians in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country.

Nabeel Masih, 16, from Punjab, who faces the death penalty for posting a picture of the Kaaba religious pilgrimage site in Mecca, had to be rushed under protective guard from court, the Express reports.

The “insulting and sacrilegious” image is alleged to have featured a pig’s head.

The mob has even threatened his defense team for taking the case. Masih’s lawyer Aneeqa Maria said it was becoming increasingly tense.

The team said: “There were about 80 people of different age groups including students that were present in the premises only for Nabeel’s hearing and each of them was continuously calling on the phone for other people to come. Even the lawyers were threatened.”

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