CNSNews - Rare Legal Victory in Case of Pakistani Christian Who Refused to Convert to Islam

By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com

(CNSNews.com) – In a rare piece of good news for Pakistan’s beleaguered minorities, Christian lawyers from Pakistan and the U.S., working together for more than a year, have secured the conviction of three Muslims who killed a Christian businessman after he refused to convert to Islam.

The legal victory this month in Mian Channu, a city in Punjab province, came 16 months after Rashid Masih, a potato merchant in the area, was beaten with iron rods and left for dead after being lured to a farmhouse for a supposed business meeting. . . .

The Masih case was taken up by lawyers with the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), an international affiliate of the Virginia Beach-based American Centre for Law and Justice (ACLJ).

In comments Wednesday provided through the lawyers, Munir Asi told CNSNews.com that after his brother’s death his assailants had been derisive about what chuhras – a term of contempt reserved for Christians in Pakistan – would be able to do in response. . . .

“By pursuing the case my brother will not come back to life but this will set an example,” he said.

He praised the ECLJ/ACLJ lawyers for their help, saying they had behaved as though Rashid Masih had been a member of their own family. . . .

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