According to Christian Today, a Christian man in Pakistan, Zafar Bhatti, age 58, has been sentenced to death for committing blasphemy almost a decade after he was accused. Even though the advocates for the man claim the charges against their client are false and it shows another example of how Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws are abused.
Bhatti was accused of sending blasphemous text messages from his phone and arrested in July 2012. They have got many proofs that the message was sent by another person, Ghazala Khan. Without considering these reports Bhatti was sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s Penal Code in May 2017.
In October 2021, Bhatti’s case was sent back to the trial court by the Lahore High Court. Recently, Bhatti’s sentence was revised by the Session Court of Rawalpindi from a life sentence to a death sentence, the mandatory punishment for those convicted of blasphemy under Section 295-C.