In Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab, hundreds of Muslims raided a police station, dragged a suspected blasphemer out of his cell, brought him out, and lynched him. Washington postrefers to the police.
Senior police officer Babar Sarfaraz Alpa said that a prisoner named Waris was detained by the police for disrespecting the pages of Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an, on which he had pasted pictures.
The law enforcement officer said several people climbed the wall of the site with wooden ladders and then opened the main door to the angry crowd. People searched the cells and found Varys. When reinforcements of police arrived at the scene, the crowd had lynched the man.
According to Alp, the radicals were going to burn the prisoner’s body, but they managed to prevent it.
Under Pakistani law, accusations of blasphemy are punishable by death.
Three Russians in April last year prisoner for accidentally lynching a man they thought was a pedophile.