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Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

MUBASHER BUKHARI A court sentenced six men to death in a mass trial for the mob lynching of a clothes factory's Sri Lankan manager in eastern Pakistan last year, the case's public prosecutor said. Scores of enraged workers in the city of Sialkot tortured and burned the man in December over accusations of blasphemy which a police official at the time linked to the removal of a poster with Islamic holy verses. Mobile phone footage shows him being chased onto a roof then beaten with sticks, dragged onto the streets, stripped and set alight. One man who seeks to help…
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