Pakistan: 85 sentenced to 55 yrs in jail over Asia Bibi protests
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE: A Pakistani court Friday sentenced 85 people including brother and nephew of a radical Islamist party chief sentenced to 55 years in prison each after protests linked to the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, one of their senior leaders told AFP. The sentence — an unusually harsh one in Pakistan, where blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue — was announced by a lower court...