Asia News – Punjab: young Christian man accused of blasphemy killed in prison
— Asia News reports: “Fanish, 20, was arrested last Saturday. His death was ‘judicial murder’ according to human rights activist. The day before a Muslim mob attacked members of the dead man’s Christian community, setting fire to their church. Pakistani extremists are funded by Saudi ‘charities.'”
— “The young Christian man who was arrested on 12 September in a village in Punjab accused of blasphemy was killed last night in prison. Police had Fanish, 20, remanded into their custody in order to continue their investigation. This morning prison guards in Sialkot district prison found the lifeless body of the young man with visible signs of injuries.”
— “Fanish (pictured in prison) was arrested last Saturday after accusations of blasphemy were made against him. A day earlier a Muslim mob had gathered in front of the church in the village of Jaithikey, not far from the town of Samberial, in the district of Sialkot (Punjab), to teach the local Christian community a ‘lesson'”
— “Extremists damaged the building before setting it on fire. They also pillaged two homes near the church.”
— “A relationship between the 20-year-old Christian man and a young Muslim woman appears to be the cause of the turn of events.”
— “In another incident, also last Saturday but reported only today, a Christian settlement in Ghaziabad, a neighbourhood in Orangi Town, near Karachi (Sindh), was attacked by a mob of Muslims, enraged by blasphemy charges against a 40-year-old Christian man called Lawrence.”
— Pakistan: Christian Church torched in Sialkot over ‘desecration'”
— Pakistan: Additional Report on Church Burning in Sialkot
—- September 12, 2009 – Asia News reports: “According to preliminary reports, the real cause of tension is a relationship between a twenty year old Christian, whose name is Fanish, and a Muslim girl.”
—- “‘Muslims can not tolerate a Muslim girl falling in love with a Christian,’ says father Mani, confirming the news of the young man’s arrest this morning by police officers”
Fanish in prison - per Asia News report
