'Fearless' Pakistani lawyer murdered for continuing to defend man accused of blasphemy... despite receiving death threats from the PROSECUTION

A 'fearless' lawyer has been murdered in Pakistan for daring to defend a man charged with insulting Islam. Rashid Rehman took on the case of university lecturer Junaid Hafeez when no other lawyer in the city of Multan would because he believed in the universal human right to legal counsel, friends said. Heroically, the married 53-year-old even continued defending Mr Hafeez, accused of defaming the prophet Mohammed on social media last year, despite receiving death threats from the prosecution itself.

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