An eight-year-old boy who is accused of urinating in an Islamic seminary in the Punjab province of Pakistan is in hiding with his family after his alleged desecration caused violent unrestBoy, 8, faces death penalty after being charged with blasphemy in PakistanAn eight-year-old boy accused of urinating in an Islamic library faces the death penalty in Pakistan as he has become the youngest person to be charged with blasphemy. The boy was held in jail for a week after a cleric at the seminary told police he found a young Hindu boy in the building urinating on the ground on July 24. Image: Twitter) Twitter)Police registered the case as blasphemy, which in Pakistan is punishable with death penalty. Temples belonging to the minority Hindu population in Pakistan are often the target of mob violence. In December 2020, a large mob destroyed a century old Hindu temple in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Source: Daily Mirror August 09, 2021 11:37 UTC