Charsadda arson attack | |
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Location | Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Date | 28 November 2021 |
Target | police officers |
Attack type | arson attack |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 0 |
On 28 November 2021, religiously motivated arsonists destroyed a police station in Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1] [2]
In Pakistan, blasphemy is a very serious crime which carries the death penalty. [2] The Pakistani government have sentenced some prisoners convicted of blasphemy to death, but have not executed anyone. [2] Some blasphemy suspects have been lynched. [2] Domestic and international human rights groups have said that these laws can be abused and used to persecute religious minorities and to take revenge for personal reasons. [2]
On 28 November 2021, police arrested an apparently seriously mentally-ill man for allegedly desecrating a Quran by tearing out some its pages. [1] He was taken to Mandani police station in Tangi Tehsil, Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan. [1]
Later on the day of the arrest, a group of protesters, whom the police described as a mob of four to five thousand people, gathered outside the police station. [1] They demanded the police hand the suspect to them. [1] The police refused to do so, and during the night the protesters attacked the station, stealing weapons and burning the building down. [1] [2] They also set fire to the vehicles in its car park. [1] The police fled, taking the suspect to an undisclosed location. [1] Following the attack, the mob set fire to a police check post on Harichand Road. [1] They blocked the road and staged a sit-in there. [1] The police dispersed them; eyewitnesses said the police used tear gas and aerial firing to do so. [1]
Later, local leaders of Deobandi Sunni political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) demonstrated in Mandani bazaar, demanding the suspect be punished. [1]
Charsadda arson attack | |
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Location | Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Date | 28 November 2021 |
Target | police officers |
Attack type | arson attack |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 0 |
On 28 November 2021, religiously motivated arsonists destroyed a police station in Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1] [2]
In Pakistan, blasphemy is a very serious crime which carries the death penalty. [2] The Pakistani government have sentenced some prisoners convicted of blasphemy to death, but have not executed anyone. [2] Some blasphemy suspects have been lynched. [2] Domestic and international human rights groups have said that these laws can be abused and used to persecute religious minorities and to take revenge for personal reasons. [2]
On 28 November 2021, police arrested an apparently seriously mentally-ill man for allegedly desecrating a Quran by tearing out some its pages. [1] He was taken to Mandani police station in Tangi Tehsil, Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan. [1]
Later on the day of the arrest, a group of protesters, whom the police described as a mob of four to five thousand people, gathered outside the police station. [1] They demanded the police hand the suspect to them. [1] The police refused to do so, and during the night the protesters attacked the station, stealing weapons and burning the building down. [1] [2] They also set fire to the vehicles in its car park. [1] The police fled, taking the suspect to an undisclosed location. [1] Following the attack, the mob set fire to a police check post on Harichand Road. [1] They blocked the road and staged a sit-in there. [1] The police dispersed them; eyewitnesses said the police used tear gas and aerial firing to do so. [1]
Later, local leaders of Deobandi Sunni political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) demonstrated in Mandani bazaar, demanding the suspect be punished. [1]