A Pakistani court has sentenced three Koranic school students. two of them were sentenced to death for the murder of a teacher who was accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad, police sources said this Wednesday.

Razia Hanfi, that he was 21 years old when the murder occurred in 2022, and Umrah AmanA 24-year-old man was sentenced to death last Monday for the crime, he said. EFE Dera police officer Ismail Khan Muhammad Tufail.

Ayesha Naumani was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Tufail, since he was 17 years old at the time of the crime.

Three relatives and students of the Jamia Islamia Falahul Binaat Quranic school in the town, located in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have justified the killing of a 13-year-old girl as a dream. He saw his teacher Bibi blaspheme against the Prophet Muhammad.

Before this, young women beat the professor with sticks slit her throat at the main entrance to the Islamic seminaryand were arrested on March 30, 2022.

Added to offers fines for Hanfi and Aman amounting to 2 million rupees (about $7,000) each, and Naumani – 1 million ($3,500), Tufail reports.

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All convicted students have the right to challenge the conviction in the High Court and, if rejected, They can still petition the Supreme Court. If the top court refuses, all three could petition the Pakistani president for clemency.

The crime of blasphemy was established during the British colonial era and tempered by dictator Mohamed Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s and carries the death penalty in Pakistan, although no one has ever been executed for it.

Critics claim that some people They abuse the blasphemy lawmany times to settle their personal scores.

In February 2021, a mob lynched a man who his family said suffered from a mental disorder for allegedly burning several pages of the Quran in East Pakistan.

Also in December 2021 the group executed and then set fire to the man’s body Sri Lanka in the northeastern city of Sialkot for blasphemy.

Lynching was the cause condemnation of international organizations and the Government of Sri Lanka.

(according to information from EFE)