Rimsha be aged 11 or 12 years This young Pakistani Christian, that would be reached with trisomy 21, was arrested Thursday, August 16 by police in Islamabad. She was placed in custody for fourteen days, and must appear at the end of August. The girl is accused of having desecrated a copy of the Koran, a blasphemy. It would actually just been seen in public, holding his hands burned pages on which were, say, verses from the Quran. Unrest erupted in the area immediately Mehrabad, a suburb of the Pakistani capital, where Muslims have attacked Christians and gave chase to the family of the girl who had tried to escape. "We had to register the case quickly to avoid an unpleasant situation," said a police official. In early July, an angry mob had lynched a mentally disabled than forty years, Ghulam Abbas, in the city of Bahawalpur, on the same charges. While about 800 Christians live Mehrabad, many of them fled to avoid reprisals, which occurred in 2009 in the town of Gojra, where the Christian quarter was burned after a charge of blasphemy.
EXCEPTIONAL CRUELTY
Rimsha for the drama is only just beginning. She appeared Friday, August 17 court without a lawyer and without representatives of civil society have not been able to visit him in prison. Two Pakistani NGOs have made her situation public Sunday, August 19, protesting against the cruelty of the exceptional treatment of the girl. "She was only 11 or 12 years," said Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, an association representing the minorities in the country, adding that his disability prevents him from understanding what he is accused. The police, however, said Monday, Aug. 20 that the girl was not with trisomy 21.
"FALSE CHARGES"
"The Women's Action Forum (WAF) is outraged by the total inhumanity of men" who denounced the girl said Tahira Abdullah, spokesman of the movement for women's rights. According to her, this matter should have been dealt with by the juvenile justice system. "This is a false accusation of blasphemy, because he is a child who is suffering from more mental illness. However, blasphemy implies that intention is not able to have, " explains Cross Tahira Abdullah. The WAF has called for the immediate release of the girl. After the affair Asia Bibi, a Christian peasant mother of five children, accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, sentenced to death by hanging in 2010 and imprisoned for this new accusation rekindled intercommunal tensions. She also raise the debate about the exploitation of the blasphemy law used to settle quarrels neighborhood recover land or housing, unwanted neighbors hunt and persecute religious minorities in Pakistan.
"BLASPHEMY"
The MP Sherry Rehman, who proposed in 2010 an amendment to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy was death threats. It is now ambassador to the United States, which gave him a sort of personal protection. Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, who had denounced a law "perverse", as the Pakistani Minister of Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti a Catholic, who had asked the favor of Asia Bibi, have both been killed, in January and March 2011. As for those accused of blasphemy, they are likely to suffer the same fate in their prison or even the innocent of justice after their release. Media coverage of the case Rimsha could offer a form of protection. Faced with protests, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Monday, August 20 investigate the allegations made against the girl child.
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