A Pakistani court has sentenced four people to death for blasphemy. Under the country’s blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of insulting Islam or its religious figures can be sentenced to death.
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Along with the death sentences, the judge imposed collective fines of 4.6 million rupees and handed down jail terms to each of the four should a higher court overturn their death sentences.
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