<< Previous | 15 of 15 | Next >>

World News

Pakistan: tortured to death

On 25 February a Muslim landowner chained and tortured a young Christian man, who later died from his injuries, after accusing him of ‘polluting’ his tube-well water by rinsing in it.

Morning Star News

Saleem Masih, 22, had finished unloading chaff in fields in Baguyana village, Karsur District, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Lahore, and was rinsing himself off in the tube-well when property owner Sher Dogar and other men rushed over, yanked him out of the water and began beating him.