If the roles were reversed here, which they would not be and should not be, this would be screaming international news. But this will get no notice.
“Pakistan: ‘Police said, if we didn’t convert to Islam we’d face prison,'” by Fionn Shiner, ICN, September 1, 2020:
A man, who spent nearly five years in prison in Pakistan, has described how police tortured him and fellow Christians, threw their rosary beads on the floor and told them they would escape jail if they converted to Islam.
Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Amjad Arif, a rickshaw driver in Lahore, said the police’s alleged mistreatment took place after he and dozens of other Christians were arrested in connection with the lynching of two Muslims.
Mr Arif, who denies the accusation, said: “At the police station, officers abused, slapped and tortured us with batons, charging us with burning Muslims.
“They snatched rosaries from three of us and threw them on the floor. We were forced to accept either Islam or guilt in the murder of two men.”
Mr Arif added: “A 25-year-old Christian, also arrested for alleged lynching, converted to Islam and was released three hours later. We kept our faith in the living God.”
The lynching of the Muslim men happened amid riots that followed two suicide bombings on 15th March 2015, targeting Sunday services at St John’s Church and Christ Church, both in Youhanabad, a largely Christian quarter of Lahore.
At least 20 people died and 80 were injured in the attacks.
Mr Arif said the incident radically changed life for Christians in Pakistan….