Mohammad Mansha

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Charge:	Blasphemy
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	9
Year Crime:	2008
Year Convicted:	2009
Year Cleared:	2017
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
County or Region of Crime:	Punjab
City of Crime:	Bahawalnagar
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Mohammad Mansha was wrongly convicted in 2009 of committing blasphemy in September 2008 in the Bahawalnagar district in Punjab province in Pakistan. Mansha's prosecution was based on the allegation of the imam of a mosque that he had desecrated a copy of the Koran. After his conviction following a bench trial Mansha was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2014 Mansha's conviction was affirmed on appeal. The same year Mansha appealed to Pakistan's Supreme Court. The prosecutor in the case, Abdul Waheed, admitted there was no "scientific evidence" against Mansha and the police investigation was "faulty," and that Mansha, a poor villager, could not hire a lawyer so the court appointed him one. On December 29, 2017 a two-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court reversed Mansha's conviction on the basis the complainant, Akhtar Mohammad, was suffering from hearing and speech impairments. Justice Dost Mohammad and Justice Qazi Faez Isa ruled that Mohammad's evidence had no legal value under the Evidence Act."
Conviction Caused By:	Unreliable eyewitness identification by his accuser.
Innocence Proved By:	"On December 29, 2017 a two-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court reversed Mansha's conviction on the basis the complainant, Akhtar Mohammad, was suffering from hearing and speech impairments. The judges said that Mohammad's evidence had no legal value under the Evidence Act."
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Age When Imprisoned:	49
Age When Released:	58
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Pakistan man exonerated after serving nine years for blasphemy, By Press Association, Independent Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), December 31, 2017"
Information Location 1:	https://www.independent.ie/world-news/pakistan-man-exonerated-after-serving-nine-years-for-blasphemy-36446059.html
Information Source 2:	"Man exonerated of blasphemy charges after nine years in prison, By Monitoring Report, Pakistan Today (Islamabad), December 30, 2017"
Information Location 2:	https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/30/man-exonerated-of-blasphemy-charges-after-nine-years-in-prison/
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Mohammad Mansha

Charge:

Blasphemy

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

2009

Year Cleared:

2017

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

Punjab

City of Crime:

Bahawalnagar

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Unreliable eyewitness identification by his accuser.

Innocence Proved By:

"On December 29, 2017 a two-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court reversed Mansha's conviction on the basis the complainant, Akhtar Mohammad, was suffering from hearing and speech impairments. The judges said that Mohammad's evidence had no legal value under the Evidence Act."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

49

Age When Released:

58

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Pakistan man exonerated after serving nine years for blasphemy, By Press Association, Independent Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), December 31, 2017"

Information Location 1:

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/pakistan-man-exonerated-after-serving-nine-years-for-blasphemy-36446059.html

Information Source 2:

"Man exonerated of blasphemy charges after nine years in prison, By Monitoring Report, Pakistan Today (Islamabad), December 30, 2017"

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https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/30/man-exonerated-of-blasphemy-charges-after-nine-years-in-prison/

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