One person was sentenced to death and 30 others were imprisoned over the brutal campus lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy in Pakistan.
A court in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province acquitted 26 other suspects in the killing of Mashal Khan last year, which sparked outcry in the religiously conservative country.
Mr Khan, 23, a communications student, was attacked and killed by a mob on the campus after a dormitory debate about religion.
The 57 suspects indicted over the murder included students, teachers and some officials of Abdul Wali Khan University. [The Telegraph] Read more
