MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2003
Pak Christian sentenced to life for blasphemy
AP
MULTAN: A court in Pakistan has sentenced a minority Christian to life in prison for blasphemy, police said Sunday.
Ranjah Maseih was convicted Saturday in a court in Faisalabad, 280 kilometers northeast of Multan, in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police official Nazir Ahmed said.
Maseih was arrested on May 8, 1998, when he allegedly smashed a neon sign bearing a Quranic verse at a rally called to mourn the death of a Catholic clergyman. The maximum penalty in Muslim-majority Pakistan for blasphemy is death.
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