2015-05-22 13:00:00

106 charged with murder of Christian couple in Pakistan


(Vatican Radio) Over six months ago, in a village in Pakistan two Christians, a husband and a wife, were beaten and burned alive for allegedly desecrating a Quran.  In total 140 people have been nominated by police as being responsible for the deaths, but with 34 of the accused still at large, only 106 have been charged by an anti-terrorism court. 

Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama, were a minority Christian couple living in a village some 60 kilometres South-West of the Pakistani capital of Lahore  After being accused of desecrating a copy of the Quran, an angry mob spurred on by local Islamic clerics, descended on the husband and wife seeking revenge.  The mob then dragged, beat and tortured the couple and finally burned them alive in a brick kiln while preventing police from intervening.  The couple left behind four children; two sons and two daughters.

Following their deaths protestors took to the streets in widespread outrage at the murders.








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