- Judges said that the 22-year-old was making the material to outrage Muslims
- A 17-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison for sharing the messages
A 22-year-old student has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for sharing private messages on WhatsApp that were allegedly derogatory to Prophet Muhammad.
He is also said to have been offensive towards the prophet’s wives.
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan.
The court in Punjab Province said that he had sent the messages, which also included pictures, in order to anger Muslims.
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to life in priosn as part of the same case.
A 22 year old student has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for sharing private messages on WhatsApp that were derogatory to Prophet Muhammad
Both have denied wrongdoing.
The authorities caught on to the WhatsApp messages when a complaint was filed in 2022 by the cybercrime unit of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency.
The agency made the complaint after a recipient of the ‘blasphemous’ material reported he had received the messages from three different phone numbers.
They called it ‘obscene material’.
The 17-year-old was given a life sentence for sharing the material.
The minimum age to receive capital punishment in Pakistan is 18.
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