Pakistani Pastor Dies Days After Acquittal in Blasphemy Case
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After spending 13 years behind bars for a crime he had always denied, Pastor Zafar Bhatti finally walked free, only to die three days later. His death has cast a harsh light on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and the grim conditions of its prisons. Bhatti, 62, the founder of Jesus World Mission Church in Rawalpindi, died of cardiac arrest on Oct. 5 at his home in Punjab province. He had been released on Oct. 2 after the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench overturned his blasphemy conviction.
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