Salamat Masih

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Charge:	Blasphemy
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1993
Year Convicted:	1994
Year Cleared:	1995
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
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City of Crime:	Lahore
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Salamat Masih and his uncle Rehmat Masih were wrongly convicted in 1995 of blasphemy in Pakistan for allegedly writing blasphemous graffiti against the prophet Muhammad. Salamat, 14, and Rehmat, 40, were sentnced to death. Salamat and Rehmat are Christians. The defense of two at trial was they were both illiterate when the crime was committed in 1993 and thus it could not have been committed by them. On February 24, 1995 a Pakistani appeals court overturned the convictions on the basis there was insufficient evidence of their guilt."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On February 24, 1995 a Pakistani appeals court overturned the convictions on the basis there was insufficient evidence of their guilt."
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Information Source 1:	"Blasphemy Conviction Overturned: Pakistani Court Lifts Death Sentence Against 2 Christians, By John Ward Anderson (staff), The Washington Post, February 24, 1995, p. A17"
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Salamat Masih

Charge:

Blasphemy

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1993

Year Convicted:

1994

Year Cleared:

1995

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Lahore

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On February 24, 1995 a Pakistani appeals court overturned the convictions on the basis there was insufficient evidence of their guilt."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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"Blasphemy Conviction Overturned: Pakistani Court Lifts Death Sentence Against 2 Christians, By John Ward Anderson (staff), The Washington Post, February 24, 1995, p. A17"

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http://0-search.proquest.com.catalog.multcolib.org/docview/307851113?accountid=37296

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