(IOL) – A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced a Christian man to seven years in prison for insulting Islams holy book, the Koran, as he practiced magic, police said today.
Bashir Masih, 35, was arrested in August last year in the cotton-growing village of Chak 109 Fateh after a Muslim man complained to police that Masih was insulting the Koran by putting his legs on the holy book while he lay in bed at home, Haji Nazir Ahmed, a local police official, said.
Under Pakistan s blasphemy laws, anyone who insults the Koran, Islam or its prophet Muhammad can be punished by death. Throwing the holy book on the ground, touching it with feet or saying derogatory things about it are deemed insulting.
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