
UN experts urge Pakistan to clear scholar of blasphemy, lift death sentence
Saturday, December 28, 2019, 5:13 PM
United Nations human rights experts called on Pakistan's high court on Friday to clear liberal academic Junaid Hafeez of blasphemy charges and overturn his death sentence. In a joint statement, they described Hafeez's condemnation by a lower court last week as a "travesty of justice" and said senior judges should acquit the former university lecturer on appeal.
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