International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018
Two Christian brothers, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub, were sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan for allegedly posting blasphemous material on a website in 2011. On December 13, Judge Javed Iqbal Bosal heard the case in the Jhelum prison, declared the brothers guilty, and sentenced them to death.
The blasphemy accusation against Qaisar and Amoon stems back to offensive content that appeared on a website copyrighted in Qaisar’s name in 2011. Qaisar testified that he had shut down the website in 2009 but that a Muslim acquaintance, Shahryar Gill, resurrected the site keeping Qaisar’s name in the copyright. The accusation was made against Qaisar after he got into an argument with his friends at work in 2011.