Indahnya Islam itu, hehehe.... (si Teddy pasti mikir gua lagi muji2 Islam, saking dungunya)
>________________________________ > From: Sunny <am...@tele2.se> >To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com >Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 3:25 AM >Subject: [proletar] Girl accused of blasphemy ‘denied meeting with lawyer’ > > > >http://dawn.com/2012/08/23/rimsha-accused-of-blasphemy-traumatised-activist/ > >Girl accused of blasphemy ‘denied meeting with lawyer’ > >Pakistanis protesting against the arrest of Christians — File Photo > >ISLAMABAD: A lawyer for a young Pakistani Christian girl arrested on blasphemy >charges in a poor suburb of Islamabad claimed Thursday he had been refused a >meeting with her. > >Police arrested the girl, Rimsha, who reportedly has Down’s Syndrome, in a >low-income neighbourhood of the capital last Thursday after she was accused of >burning papers containing verses from the Quran, and remanded her for 14 days. > >Rimsha, aged between 11 and 16, is being held in a jail in Islamabad’s twin >city Rawalpindi, and her case has prompted concern from Western governments >and fury from rights campaigners. > >“The lawyers are facing difficulties to see the accused girl. The jail >authorities have told them to get permission from the top authorities,” >Shamaun Alfred Gill, a spokesman for All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA), >told AFP. > >Her legal team said they had approached the higher authorities in Punjab >province but could not get a go ahead for the meeting. > >“I myself contacted the inspector general (of prisons) by phone and he told me >that he will call me back, but I am still waiting to speak to him,” Tahir >Naveed Chaudhry, one of Rimsha’s lawyers, told AFP. > >“He is not receiving my calls now. Legally, they can’t stop a lawyer seeing >his client in the jail but the authorities are refusing us a meeting.” But >Farooq Nazir, the inspector-general of Punjab prisons, told AFP there was no >restriction on Rimsha meeting her lawyer or immediate family and insisted she >was being cared for. > >Earlier, an activist who said he visited Rimsha said that the girl was too >frightened to speak in a prison where she is being held in solitary >confinement for her safety. > >Christian activist Xavier William said he visited Masih at a police station >where she was first held, and then this week in prison. > >“She was frightened and traumatised,” William told Reuters. > >“She was assaulted and in very bad shape. She had bruises on her face and on >her hands,” he added, referring to an attack by a mob in her village on the >edge of Islamabad after she was accused of blasphemy. > >Rimsha is being held in the same jail as Mumtaz Qadri, the bodyguard who last >year gunned down Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who had declared Pakistan’s >strict anti-blasphemy legislation “a black law”. > >Chaudhry said that they have also filed an application with a court in >Islamabad to set up a medical panel to determine Rimsha’s age. > >“We want the court to constitute a commission to judge the age of Rimsha, >because, the church records show she is 11 years old only. While her age >mentioned in the police report is 16,” he said. > >Christians flee girl’s village > >Masih’s arrest triggered an exodus of several hundred Christians from her >poverty-stricken village after local mosques reported over their loudspeakers >what the girl was alleged to have done. Emotions were running high there. > >A neighbour named Tasleem said her daughter saw Masih throwing away trash that >included the burned religious material. > >“If Christians burn our Quran, we will burn them,” she told Reuters. > >Other Muslims were more conciliatory. > >“We protected the rest of the Christians,” said Masih’s landlord Malik Amjad >Mohammad. “People here support them.” > >Christians, who make up four per cent of Pakistan’s population of 180 million, >have been especially concerned about the blasphemy law, saying it offers them >no protection. > >Convictions hinge on witness testimony and are often linked to vendettas, they >complain. > >President Asif Ali Zardari has told officials to produce a report on the >girl’s arrest, which has brought protests from Amnesty International, >British-based Christian group Barnabas Fund, and others. > >Masih is due to appear in court in the next 10 days. She could be formally >charged with blasphemy. > >Spotlight on blasphemy law > >The case has put another spotlight on Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy law, which >rights groups say dangerously discriminates against the country’s minority >groups. > >Under the law, anyone who speaks ill of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad commits >a crime and faces the death penalty, but activists say vague terminology has >led to its misuse. > >Convictions are common, although the death sentence has never been carried >out. Most convictions are thrown out on appeal, but mobs have killed many >people accused of blasphemy. > >Christians, who make up four per cent of Pakistan’s population of 180 million, >have been especially concerned about the blasphemy law, saying it offers them >no protection. > >Convictions hinge on witness testimony and are often linked to vendettas, they >complain. > >In 2009, 40 houses and a church were set ablaze by a mob of 1,000 Muslims in >the town of Gojra, in Punjab province. At least seven Christians were burned >to death. The attacks were triggered by reports of the desecration of the >Quran. > >Two Christian brothers accused of writing a blasphemous letter against the >Prophet Mohammad were gunned down outside a court in the eastern city of >Faisalabad in July of 2010. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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