Attorney: Teenage Christian girl prompts "first-time debate on how these laws are misused to target innocent people.”
An Islamabad court has officially dropped the case against Rimsha Masih, the teenage Pakistani Christian girl accused of defiling the Qur'an. Masih, who was arrested in August, was originally charged with blasphemy.
Today she is finally cleared of all charges, though her family can never return home because of angry public sentiment. Her lawyers are now speaking out, saying her case had been a misuse of law.
“This is the first case of its kind when a person charged under the strict blasphemy laws is exonerated from the accusation,” said Naveed Chaudry, one of her lawyers. “This case has also brought for the first time a debate on how these laws are misused to target innocent people.” Read more
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