Amoon Ayub
Gender: Male
Current Location: District Jail Jhelum, Jhelum, Punjab
Perpetrator: Pakistan
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Appeal: Rejected
Sentence: Death
Date of Detainment: November/17/2014
Date of Sentencing: December/13/2018
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Blasphemy (General) Blasphemy (Religious Figures) Online Activity
Nature of Charges: Blasphemy
Amoon Ayub
Extra Bio Info:
Amoon Ayub is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In November 2014, authorities arrested Ayub and charged him with "insulting the Prophet Muhammad" (Sec. 295-C PPC). Ayub and his brother had previously been accused of publishing content on the internet deemed blasphemous. The brothers fled Pakistan in 2011 due to harassment, but returned in 2012.
In December 2018, authorities sentenced Ayub and his brother to death. In June 2022, the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench upheld Ayub and his brother's death sentences.
Publicly Available Information:
- "Court upholds death sentence of two accused" Dawn
- The Voiceless Victims of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws International Christian Concern (ICC)
- USCIRF Annual Report 2019: Pakistan
- "Qaisar and Amoon Ayub" Coalition Against Misuse of the Blasphemy Laws
- "PAKISTAN: Two Christian brothers sentenced to death for blasphemy" Church In Chains