Pakistan police arrest 22 in ‘blasphemy’ mob killing
10 years agoPakistani activists shout slogans during a protest in Karachi on April 14, 2017, against the killing of student Mashal Khan, who was killed by his classmates. Hundreds of Pakistani students beat to death a classmate known for his liberal views on a university campus in the country's conservative northwest on April 13, police and witnesses said. Mashal Khan, a journalism student, was stripped, beaten, shot, and thrown from the second floor of his hostel at the Abdul Wali Khan university in Mardan, sources at the university said. PHOTO: ASIF HASSAN / AFP
Pakistan police announced Monday they had arrested 22 people after the lynching of a university student accused of blasphemy, but observers said there was little hope authorities would secure convictions.