At least 65 people have been killed over blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to a recent report by a Pakistani think tank, the Center for Research and Security Studies.
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By Waseem Abbasi | April 28, 2017
A Facebook post in Pakistan can be deadly.
An angry mob tortured and killed university student Mashal Khan this month for allegedly sharing blasphemous content on Facebook about Islam and the prophet Mohammed, a charge he said was the result of a friend creating a fake Facebook account in his name.
The brutal attack at Abdul Wali Khan University has created fear among other Facebook users.
“People are being killed for their Facebook posts. I don’t want to be killed, so I am deleting my account,” Muhammad Aslam, a shop owner in the Pakistani town of Chichawatni, wrote on Facebook last week. “Someone issued a death edict against me for my post on Facebook.”
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