ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has handed a death sentence for blasphemy to a 69-year-old Briton with a history of mental illness, even though his lawyers were barred from the courtroom partway through the trial, the law firm said on Friday.
Accusations of blasphemy are surging in Muslim-majority Pakistan, according to an Islamabad-based think-tank, the Centre for Research and Security Studies.
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