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02/17/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Year after year, Pakistan is ranked among the world’s worst persecutors of Christians. Amid all the reports of persecution, whether it be cases of forced conversion or communal violence, it’s easy to miss positive developments coming out of the country. However, late last year, something positive did happen. A Christian man sentenced to death for allegedly committing blasphemy was acquitted and freed. On October 6, 2020, the Lahore High Court rendered its final decision in the blasphemy case against Sawan Masih. The judicial bench, headed by Justice Syed Shehbaz Ali Rizvi, acquitted Sawan of the blasphemy charges he was sentenced to in 2014. Those charges would have resulted in Sawan’s death if he had not been freed. After more than seven years in prison, six of which were spent on death row, Sawan was finally allowed to go free.

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