Pakistan's Horrid Blasphemy Laws- Woman Released After 14 Years In Jail With No Evidence

The more I read about countries with their ridiculous blasphemy laws the more aggravated I get. I do, however, feel very sorry for the people who have to live under those kinds of laws, because the justice systems in those countries are a major farce. They are corrupt and useless, and innocent people are often locked away for long periods of time for no valid reason.

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Zaibul Nisa is just one of many who have been unjustly incarcerated under Pakistan's infamous blasphemy laws. Now 60-years-old, the poor woman languished in prison for 14 long years. Actually it was the prison in a mental institute, not a prison per se, because she allegedly desecrated a Quran in 1996. I suppose they thought only a lunatic would do that, and you'd have to be one knowing full well that you could end up in prison or dead. But the trouble is, there was absolutely no evidence that she actually did defile the Quran. And yet, there she sat for all those years, slipping through the cracks until the Lahore High Court finally released her.

Expressing his “dismay” over her long and unjust confinement, the chief justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Mohammad Sharif, "ordered the release of Zaibul Nisa after no evidence was found against her," a court official said.

And how did she wind up getting arrested back in 1996? Someone in the town of Rawat filed a report with the local police claiming that a Quran had been desecrated, and even though she was not specifically named in the complaint, she was arrested nonetheless and jailed. And why did she wind up staying so long? According to her defense lawyer Aftab Ahmad Bajwa “Nobody, not even her relatives, pursued the case. She was sent to jail and then forgotten by everyone”.

Either she was not liked by her relatives, or they, like so many others, realize how futile it is to get any help in situations like that, in countries like that. She probably would have spent the rest of her life in jail, had it not been for Bajwa, since that is the sentence for desecrating the Quran in Pakistan. You lose your life if you mess with the Prophet Mohammed.

And the tragic thing is there needs to be no proof that you actually defiled a Quran or dissed Mohammed, all it takes is someone pissed off enough at you to file a complaint and boom, there goes your life. And if the government doesn't do it for you, angry mobs will.

For example, two Christian brothers (one a Protestant clergyman) accused of writing a blasphemous pamphlet critical of the Prophet Mohammed were shot dead last Monday outside a court that was going to acquit them.

I wrote about the plight of these boys, and even if the government finally was doing the right thing, they lost their lives anyway. And apparently there is nothing in the Quran that condones the killing of people for blaspheming, and yet Pakistan refuses to do away with it. So more people will continue to be killed or jailed for nothing.