Wajih-ul Hassan

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Charge:	Blasphemy
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	18
Year Crime:	2001
Year Convicted:	2002
Year Cleared:	2019
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wajih-ul-Hassan (aka Wajeehul Hassan) was wrongly convicted in 2002 of blasphemy against the prophet Muhammad in Pakistan in 1998. He was arrested and charged in 2001. After his conviction Hassan was sentenced to death. On September 25, 2019 a three-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court acquitted Hassan in ruling the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the letters, which were the basis of blasphemy allegations against Hassan and his conviction, were actually written by him. Wajih Hassan was to be released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpath prison after 18 years of imprisonment, 17 of those years on death row."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On September 25, 2019 a three-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court acquitted Hassan in ruling the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the letters, which were the basis of blasphemy allegations against Hassan and his conviction, were actually written by him."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Pakistani
Information Source 1:	"Man acquitted in blasphemy case after 18 years in prison, By Nasir Iqbal, Dawn.com (Islamabad), September 26, 2019"
Information Location 1:	https://www.dawn.com/news/1507410
Information Source 2:	"Pakistan high court frees man imprisoned 17 years on death row for blasphemy, By Samuel Smith (CP Reporter), ChristianPost.com, September 26, 2019"
Information Location 2:	https://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistan-high-court-frees-man-imprisoned-17-years-death-row-blasphemy.html
Information Source 3:	"Pakistan: How the blasphemy laws enable abuse, Press Release about Amnesty International Report, Amnesty International, December 21, 2016"
Information Location 3:	https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/12/pakistan-how-the-blasphemy-laws-enable-abuse/
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Wajih-ul Hassan

Charge:

Blasphemy

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

18

Year Crime:

2001

Year Convicted:

2002

Year Cleared:

2019

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On September 25, 2019 a three-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court acquitted Hassan in ruling the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the letters, which were the basis of blasphemy allegations against Hassan and his conviction, were actually written by him."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Pakistani

Information Source 1:

"Man acquitted in blasphemy case after 18 years in prison, By Nasir Iqbal, Dawn.com (Islamabad), September 26, 2019"

Information Location 1:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1507410

Information Source 2:

"Pakistan high court frees man imprisoned 17 years on death row for blasphemy, By Samuel Smith (CP Reporter), ChristianPost.com, September 26, 2019"

Information Location 2:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistan-high-court-frees-man-imprisoned-17-years-death-row-blasphemy.html

Information Source 3:

"Pakistan: How the blasphemy laws enable abuse, Press Release about Amnesty International Report, Amnesty International, December 21, 2016"

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/12/pakistan-how-the-blasphemy-laws-enable-abuse/

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