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Mentally disabled Christian man charged with "blasphemy" in Pakistan
https://barnabasfund.org/en/news/mentally-disabled-christian-man-charged-with-blasphemy-in-pakistanStephen Masih, a mentally disabled Christian man, was charged with “blasphemy” in Punjab, Pakistan on 11 March following a complaint by two Muslim men who claimed he “made derogatory remarks against the Holy Prophet Muhammad in their presence” and ignored their requests to stop.
The complaint was lodged at Badiana police station in Sialkot District by local cleric Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar under section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which carries a mandatory death sentence.
...Stephen’s family is too poor to pay for the medicine he needs to control the fits and vocal outbursts of bad language caused by his mental disability.
On 11 March, while his sister Alia was at church, Stephen became involved in a quarrel with the wife of Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar. She and a woman friend threatened to report Stephen to the police because “he often used filthy language against the local women”.
The complaint was lodged at Badiana police station in Sialkot District by local cleric Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar under section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which carries a mandatory death sentence.
...Stephen’s family is too poor to pay for the medicine he needs to control the fits and vocal outbursts of bad language caused by his mental disability.
On 11 March, while his sister Alia was at church, Stephen became involved in a quarrel with the wife of Hafiz Muhammad Mudassar. She and a woman friend threatened to report Stephen to the police because “he often used filthy language against the local women”.