Pakistan Blasphemy Lynching
Pakistan sentences six men to death for lynching Sri Lankan national accused of blasphemy
Lahore, Pakistan: A Pakistani court has sentenced six men to death after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy, media reports said.
The six men, who were sentenced in the incident, were convicted of murder of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana in a case that outraged many Pakistanis.
The Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore, set up inside a high-security prison, also gave life sentences to nine people, five years’ jail to one, and two-year sentences to 72, according to a statement from the public prosecutor. Eight of those sentenced were juveniles, Aljazeera reported.
In December last year, the Sri Lankan national was lynched by a mob at a sports equipment factory in Sialkot region.
He was working as a manager in the firm.
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