Sputnik News.com ——– By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar———-Mon., Aug. 09/21
The boy has become the youngest ever person to have been charged with blasphemy in Pakistan. Under the Pakistan Penal Code, punishment for blasphemy ranges from a fine to death.
An eight-year-old Hindu boy may face the death penalty after being charged with blasphemy in Pakistan for allegedly urinating inside an Islamic religious school, a madrassa.
While the child has been kept in protective police custody in the eastern part of the country, his family has gone into hiding after a mob attacked a Hindu temple.
The boy was arrested last week on charges of “intentionally urinating on a carpet in the madrassa’s (Islamic religious school) library that housed religious books”, but was later released on bail.
Following his release, a mob of Muslim men set ablaze a temple in the Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab Province, demanding the child be punished.
The federal government had to deploy paramilitary troops to get the situation under control.
Full article here: https://sputniknews.com/asia/202108091083561408-8-year-old-charged-with-blasphemy-faces-death-penalty-for-urinating-in-islamic-religious-school/
