Death penalty after lynching party Pakistan

islamabad - A Pakistani court sentenced a man to death for his role in a lynching in April that killed a 23-year-old student. An angry mob attacked the man at the university in Mardan because he would have spread blasphemous material via the internet. That later turned out not to be true.

Dozens of people stood before the lynching party. Five people were given 25 years in prison and 25 suspects four years. Another 26 were released. The murder elicited intense discussions about blasphemy laws in Pakistan.

Research showed that a colleague student and a university employee had invented the story about blasphemy to get rid of the critical student. The man who got the death penalty shot at the student.