Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over 'blasphemous' WhatsApp activity

[brooklynite]

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death over allegedly blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp and Facebook.

Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was found guilty and given a death sentence by a court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday after a complaint was registered against her under Pakistan’s draconian cybercrime and blasphemy laws

According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp.

He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook account to transmit blasphemous material to other accounts. In doing so, she “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims”, according to the charge sheet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/pakistan-woman-aneeqa-ateeq-sentenced-to-death-blasphemous-whatsapp-messages

[viva la]

1. I wish some secret SWAT team could sneak in and rescue these people

condemned like this.

[msongs]

2. I wish allegedly holy leaders would disavow and outlaw all that blasphemy BS but they make too

much $$$ from it

[Cartoonist]

3. By doing so, aren't they insulting her religious beliefs?

How come only one side gets to kill the other?

[edhopper]

4. But we can't

denounce many Islamic countries as backward and barbarous.