{"id":760152,"date":"2022-01-21T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/pakistani-court-sentences-woman-to-death-for-blasphemous-whatsapp-messages\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:14:26","slug":"pakistani-court-sentences-woman-to-death-for-blasphemous-whatsapp-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/pakistani-court-sentences-woman-to-death-for-blasphemous-whatsapp-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani court sentences woman to death for blasphemous WhatsApp messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 20 (UPI) —<\/span> A Pakistani court has sentenced a 26-year-old woman to death for sending messages deemed to be blasphemous over WhatsApp and Facebook.<\/p>\n

Aneeqa Ateeq was convicted under the country’s strict blasphemy, which carries a mandatory death sentence.\n<\/p>\n

According to court documents, she shared images considered to be insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives with a man she met online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app, The Guardian reported.<\/p>\n

The accuser, Hasnat Farooq, said she shared caricatures in a way that “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims,” the charge sheet read.<\/p>\n

Ateeq pleaded not guilty to the charges, accusing Farooq of taking revenge on her because she refused “to be friendly” with him. She said he drew her into a religious discuss with him to frame her.<\/p>\n

“So I feel that he intentionally dragged into this topic for revenge, that’s why he … registered a case against me and during [the WhatsApp] chat he collected everything that went against me,” Ateeq said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera reported the Lahore High Court must confirm Ateeq’s death sentence.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 20 (UPI) — A Pakistani court has sentenced a 26-year-old woman to death for sending messages deemed to be blasphemous over WhatsApp and Facebook. Aneeqa Ateeq was convicted under the country’s strict blasphemy, which carries a mandatory death sentence. According to court documents, she shared images considered to be insulting to the Prophet Muhammad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}