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A Christian man was hospitalized in critical conditions after a mob accused him of having burned pages of the Quran and tried to lynch him.
The incident of May 25 in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan, has generated strong domestic and even international reactions by Christian and human rights leaders. On May 26 and 27, Christians took to the streets to protest in several different Pakistani cities, It is because of these reactions that police acted with unusual quickness and arrested more than 100 suspects, which may have been part of the mob that tried to lynch 74-year-old Christian Nazeer Masih Gill, accusing him of blasphemy and burning his shoe factory.
The arrests are good news, but they should be followed by serious prosecution. As Monsignor Joseph Arshad, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and other Christian religious authorities commented, justice is not guaranteed in Pakistan. It is often the case that when the news disappears from the first page of the media those arrested are quietly released.
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