Pakistan, 50 thousand in the streets to defend
Almost a week by the assassination of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, who was killed by a man of his escort, the fundamentalists have their voices heard again in defense of the blasphemy law, which the government wants reforms to make less severe. From 40 to 50 thousand protesters, According to police sources, demonstrated yesterday in the city of Karachi. The big parade and 'was organized by a common front of parties and religious associations that a few weeks ago they launched a national campaign in support of the law providing the death penalty for those who offend the name of Mohammed. Protesters marched with slogans that defined the law as''divine''and photographs muntaz Kadri, the bodyguard who after killing the liberal Taseer, and 'became a national hero for the fundamentalist fringes of society' in Pakistan more and more 'split on this statutory provision, often used as an instrument of persecution of minorities. Meanwhile, other politicians lay, as the parliamentarian Sherry Rehman, who presented a proposal to amend the law in parliament, are now entered on the blacklist of the radicals.
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