Shagufta Masih - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:11:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Shagufta Masih - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pakistani Christian couple cleared of blasphemy charges, escape death by hanging https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/07/08/pakistani-christian-couple-cleared-of-blasphemy-charges-escape-death-by-hanging/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 07:53:27 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=138041 Pakistan's Lahore High Court has released a 26-page judgment acquitting a Catholic mother and her partially paralyzed husband. The couple were on death row for seven years after a lower court convicted them of sending blasphemous text messages. Weeks after overturning the session court's death sentence for the couple, Shagufta Masih and her husband, Shafqat Read more

Pakistani Christian couple cleared of blasphemy charges, escape death by hanging... Read more]]> Pakistan's Lahore High Court has released a 26-page judgment acquitting a Catholic mother and her partially paralyzed husband.

The couple were on death row for seven years after a lower court convicted them of sending blasphemous text messages.

Weeks after overturning the session court's death sentence for the couple, Shagufta Masih and her husband, Shafqat Emmanuel, the high court released the judgment last week, expressing displeasure over the conduct of the trial, The News International reported.

The Catholic couple was arrested in July 2013 under Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the session court sentenced them to death by hanging in 2014.

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