Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Prime Minster (above), has been asked to release Mohammad Asghar
In Pakistan, a "judge convicted and sentenced Mohammad Asghar (to death), from Edinburgh, on Thursday following a trial. Mr Asghar was arrested in 2010 in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, for claiming to be the Prophet Mohammed in letters sent to various officials, according to prosecutor Javed Gul. But a lawyer who defended Mr Asghar said he suffers from mental illness and the case was really a property dispute... Mr Asghar, a UK citizen of Pakistani origin, returned to Pakistan in 2010 after being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in Edinburgh, the lawyer said. He later fell into a dispute with a tenant who brought the blasphemy complaint against him to police..."