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"Pakistan's blasphemy law prescribes the death sentence for anyone
found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad or the Koran."
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23 July 2010 Last updated at 13:04 GMT
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Mentally-ill Pakistan 'blasphemer' is released
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad
Protesters take to the street earlier this year year against alleged
blasphemy on the Facebook website Blasphemy is an emotive issue in
Pakistan
A court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a mentally-ill woman
who was charged with desecrating the Koran, the Muslim holy book, in
1996.
Zaibun Nisa, 60, was never put on trial and her relatives did not
contest her arrest, her lawyer said.
Pakistan's blasphemy law prescribes the death sentence for anyone
found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad or the Koran.
Human rights groups have been campaigning for its repeal.
They say that the legal procedures involved are weighed against those
accused of blasphemy.
On Monday, unidentified gunmen killed two brothers accused of
blasphemy in the premises of a Pakistani court.
Public backlash
"Zaibun Nisa was declared mentally ill by a medical board soon after
her arrest in 1996, but she was still sent to jail," her lawyer, Aftab
Ahmad Bajwa, told the media after the court orders on Thursday.
"There was no evidence linking her to the crime," he said.
A police official, requesting anonymity, said she was arrested to
defuse the tension - but everyone forgot about her when she was sent
to jail.
Her family did not pursue the case probably due to fear of a public
backlash, he said.
In Pakistan, people accused of blasphemy and their family members have
often been lynched or killed by mobs.
The complainant in the case was Qari Hafeez, a cleric from Lahore who
reported to the police that he had found torn pages of the Koran
thrown in a drain.
The police lodged a complaint against unknown offenders.
'Mental sub-jail'
Qari Hafeez told the media in Lahore on Thursday he did not name
Zaibun Nisa as an offender in the case.
"Police acted on their own initiative to arrest the woman," he said.
Mr Bajwa discovered her in a "mental sub-jail" a year ago and filed a
petition on her behalf in the Lahore High Court.
He said the woman will be sent to a shelter for homeless people as her
family cannot be traced.
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