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PAKISTANI POLICEMAN KILLS CHRISTIAN PRISONER ISTANBUL, June 1 (Compass) -- A Pakistani police constable bludgeoned to death a Christian jailed on blasphemy charges, declaring he “wanted to earn a place in paradise” by killing the alleged “blasphemer.” Samuel Masih died last Friday from severe head injuries inflicted several days earlier by Faryad Ali, a Muslim policeman in his late 20s. In the early morning hours of May 24, the constable entered a Lahore hospital ward where the guarded Christian prisoner was being treated for advanced tuberculosis. Swinging a brick-cutter hammer, Ali hit Masih on the head, despite a policeman posted...

<p>Policeman: 'I have offered my religious duty ... I'm spiritually satisfied'</p> <p>Samuel Masih was buried in Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday following injuries he received from a Muslim policeman who beat the 27-year-old Christian with a hammer as he lay in his hospital bed recovering from a bout of tuberculosis.</p>

LAHORE, Pakistan, May 29 (Reuters) - A Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy for scattering garbage near a mosque has died of wounds suffered after a policeman attacked him with a hammer, police said on Saturday. Lahore police official Abdul Shakoor said constable Faryad Ali was arrested on murder charges, after the victim, Samuel Masih, died on Friday. The constable attacked Masih this week at a hospital in the eastern city of Lahore after learning that he had been accused of strewing garbage near the walls of a mosque. Masih, 27, was arrested last year on a blasphemy complaint and was...

PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN DIES FROM POLICE ATTACK The Voice of the Martyrs has learned that Samuel Masih, a Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy under Pakistan's strict Law 295, died tonight around 9:00 p.m. local time in the Lahore hospital where he was a patient. Masih was arrested August 23, 2003 and was accused of throwing waste against the side of a mosque. He was held in the Lahore Central Jail until, suffering from tuberculosis, he was transferred to a local hospital on May 22. Two days later, early in the morning, Masih was attacked by one of the policemen assigned to...