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Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested sixty people on charges of lynching a man at a police station in the country’s east, whom they accused of desecrating a copy of the Koran.
“About 60 suspects were arrested in two days after they were identified from video footage,” district police spokesman Muhammed Wakas told EFE today. Nankanain the eastern province of Punjabwhere the lynching took place on Saturday.
The source added that the security forces had collected more than 900 videos of the incident, which identified dozens of suspects who were later detained in several raids against their homes, offices or other places where they were hiding.
He added that the identification of new suspects continues. vakaswho assured that in addition to the case against those responsible for lynching, another case of blasphemy against the murdered was registered.
On Saturday, a mob took the victim from his home, accusing him of defiled the Koran ostensibly in the name of witchcraft, and despite the fact that he was transferred to the police station for Policedozens of people broke into the building and beat him to death.
Some videos from the event have been uploaded to social media show several people climbing the great gate Police stationforcing it to open and allowing the crowd to enter the building.
But not everything was over, the crowd dragged the naked lifeless body through the streets, while other people threw sticks and stones at him.
In response to the incident, Punjab Police Chief Usman Anwar suspended the two officers responsible for the security breaches, saying they would take action against aggressors.
Blasphemy allegations
Pakistan It has a tough blasphemy law passed in British colonial times to prevent religious clashes, but in the 1980s various reforms sponsored by then-dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq encouraged abuse of the rule.
Since then, more than a thousand charges of blasphemy, a crime that Pakistan it can carry the death penalty, although no one has yet been executed for such a crime.
Last February a man stoned shot by a mob for alleged desecration of a copy Koranalso in Punjab.
Two months before this incident, another mob lynched and set fire to the body of a Sri Lankan man in the northeastern Pakistani city of Sialkot, who was also accused of blasphemy.
According to a report by the Center for Security Investigation and Research, 1,415 allegations and cases of blasphemy V Pakistan from 1947 to 2021.
EFE
Source: RPP
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