Pakistan has incarcerated Chinese national, identified as ‘Mr Tian’, in solitary confinement at the Haripur Central jail in a bid to protect him from crowds wanting to lynch him for disrespect to Islam. In normal circumstances, charges of blasphemy invite fines or the death penalty, but often it is the radical mobs that deliver justice. … Continue reading China quietly seethes as engineer’s ordeal in Pakistan continues over blasphemy issue