pakistan’s blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty for insulting mohammed, is popular in the country but has been used as a pretext for whipping up vengeful mobs a provincial governor who stood up for bibi and a government minister who questioned the blasphemy law were shot and killed, and ate least 65 people are reported to have been killed under the law since 1990, most of them minority shiite muslims bibi was the first woman sentenced to death under the law peter weber pakistan’s blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty for insulting mohammed, is popular in the country but has been used as a pretext for whipping up vengeful mobs

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