Pakistan: Christian acquitted after spending 7 years in prison on blasphemy charge aleteia.org

The head of a Catholic human rights organization in Pakistan has lashed out at the country’s justice system for taking so long to free the man wrongly accused of sparking one of the worst outbreaks of anti-Christian violence.

More than seven years after former health worker Sawan Masih, 38, was arrested, the Lahore High Court acquitted him of a charge of blasphemy, a crime which in Pakistan is punishable by death…

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