A Pakistan court has sentenced four men to death for posting blasphemous content online, a member of a group of "vigilante" private lawyers that brought the prosecution said on Monday.
The four men were sentenced in Rawalpindi, the garrison city that neighbours the capital Islamabad, Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer from the Legal Commission on Blasphemy Pakistan (LCBP), told AFP.
Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even unsubstantiated accusations can incite public outrage and lead to lynchings.
Pakistan has witnessed a sharp increase in the prosecution of "online blasphemy" cases, with private groups bringing charges against hundreds of young individuals for allegedly committing blasphemy. "They were sentenced to death...
