Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan

[DamianTV]

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/0...ts-in-pakistan

In what is believed to be "the first time the death penalty had been awarded in a case related to social media," a 30-year-old man in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in comments made on Facebook. Gizmodo reports:

The prosecutor told The Times of India that Taimoor Raza was arrested "after playing blasphemous and hate speech material on his phone on a bus stop in Bahawalpur, where a counter-terrorism officer arrested him and confiscated his phone." It was the material on Raza's phone that led to his arrest. The Guardian reports that the accused's brother said Raza "indulged in a sectarian debate on Facebook with a person, who we later come to know, was a [counter-terrorism department] official with the name of Muhammad Usman." Raza's defense attorney told The Guardian the initial charges were limited to "insulting remarks on sectarian grounds," which carries a maximum two-year jail sentence, but that "derogatory acts against prophet Muhammad," which carry a death sentence, were added later. According to The Times of India, Raza will be able to appeal the ruling to the Pakistani High Court and the Supreme Court.

Facebook said in a statement: "We are deeply saddened and concerned by the death sentence served in Pakistan for a Facebook post. Facebook uses powerful systems to keep people's information secure and tools to keep their accounts safe, and we do not provide any government with direct access to people's data. We will continue to protect our community from unnecessary or overreaching government intervention."

Im sure too many people will blow off this story because "not my country", or "he did it to himself". Those people are very well missing the big picture. Do you think this wont ever come to YOUR country? It will. Do you think this wont happen to you because you are the "right" religion? It might very well happen to you. None of these things are what you really need to concern yourself with. What you need to concern yourself with is if your Govt comes after YOU because you spoke out in protest of ANY actions of your Govt, Representatives, or Officials.

Without Privacy, EVERYTHING is subject to approval. And very soon, it could very well cost you your life.

[timosman]

Facebook said in a statement: "We are deeply saddened and concerned by the death sentence served in Pakistan for a Facebook post. ..

How deep and how concerned?

[DamianTV]

How deep and how concerned?

Saddened and concerned enough to say they are saddened and concerned, and thats it.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

holy $#@! that would've been us if hillary became prez. Also it's already half here, people going to jail for calling someone a ugly bitch on facebook

[Ender]

Sounds like he was set up:

The Guardian reports that the accused's brother said Raza "indulged in a sectarian debate on Facebook with a person, who we later come to know, was a [counter-terrorism department] official with the name of Muhammad Usman." Raza's defense attorney told The Guardian the initial charges were limited to "insulting remarks on sectarian grounds," which carries a maximum two-year jail sentence, but that "derogatory acts against prophet Muhammad," which carry a death sentence,

[enhanced_deficit]

holy $#@! that would've been us if hillary became prez. Also it's already half here, people going to jail for calling someone a ugly bitch on facebook

Don't know about US but Europe is half there already.





David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial

The British revisionist historian and Nazi apologist David Irving was today sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted denying the Holocaust.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ia.thefarright

[timosman]

[Sola_Fide]

It's coming to the US. But in the US, the death penalty or the reeducation camps will be reserved for the people who reject homosexuality and reject men who think they are women.