Pakistani police arrested at least 50 suspects in the kidnapping and lynching of a man already detained on charges of blasphemy, officials said February 13. A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the police station in the Nankana district of eastern Punjab Province on February 11. Members of the mob had been alerted that a man identified only as Waris desecrated a copy of Islam’s holy book, the Koran. Charges of blasphemy carry the death penalty under Pakistani law. To read the original story by AP, click here.
Pakistan Nabs 50 Men In Weekend Killing Of Blasphemy Suspect
Police officers gather outside a police station in Warburton, an area of the Nankana district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province, on February 12.