A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist party to 55-year
prison terms each for taking part in violent rallies in 2018 over the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, a party official said Friday.
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The verdicts, unusually harsh for
Pakistan, were announced late Thursday night by the court in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad.
Pir Ejaz Ashrafi, a senior leader of the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik party, said the sentences would be appealed.