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Rimsha Masih ( — some early reports used the first name "Rifta" or "Riftah") is a Pakistani girl from Mehrabadi, Islamabad, who was arrested by Pakistani police in August 2012 on blasphemy charges for allegedly desecrating pages of the Quran (or a book containing verses from the Quran) by burning〔 -- a crime punishable by death under Pakistan's blasphemy law. She is a member of Pakistan's Christian minority.〔 Two weeks after her arrest, the local imam who had reported her to police was arrested on suspicion of planting pages of religious texts in Rimsha's bag.〔〔〔 Rimsha was eventually acquitted of all charges.〔(''Rimsha Masih vs. Station House Officer, Police Station Ramna'', PLD 2013 Islamabad 1 ); 〕 In mid 2013 after months of hiding, Rimsha and her family were able to escape to Canada. ==Arrest== Rimsha Masih was arrested on August 16, 2012 for allegedly burning pages from the Quran. While carrying trash in a plastic bag in the neighborhood where she lived she was told by a Muslim boy (Hammad) to let him inspect the contents of her bag.〔 The boy then took the bag to the imam of a local mosque,〔 Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti who accusing Masih of desecrating the Quran, gave police burned papers from the trash as evidence against her. On August 24 Chishti told AFP news service that he thought Rimsha had burned the pages deliberately as part of a Christian “conspiracy” to insult Muslims, and that action should have been taken sooner to stop what he called their “anti-Islam activities” in the area.〔 Outrage by local Muslims forced 300 local Christian families to leave their homes and to attempt to "find shelter in one of the Islamabad forests". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rimsha Masih blasphemy case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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