According to one FIR lodged with the Danyor police, the senior lawyer has not only committed “blasphemy but also made fun of principle tenets of Islam”.
Source/Credit: The Nation
By Zafar Ali Khan | February 14, 2018
An anti-terrorism court in Gilgit has sent a senior lawyer and a vocal political activist behind the bars on charges of “hurting religious sentiments of the people” by sharing a searing post on the social media.
Senior lawyer and Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court Bar Association President Ehsan Ali, who was arrested by the Jutial police on early Monday morning after two FIRs were lodged against him, accusing him of sharing a controversial post on his Facebook account about an Iranian woman — who has taken part in the recent public demonstrations in Iran — perching on the pulpit of a mosque without covering her head.
According to one FIR lodged with the Danyor police, the senior lawyer has not only committed “blasphemy but also made fun of principle tenets of Islam”.
ATC judge Raja Shahbaz Khan sent the arrested lawyer on judicial remand till February 26 under 295-A, punishable for a term which may extend to 10 years with fine.
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