Husain Muzaffar
Kent Forensic Psychiatric Service, Dartford.
Psychiatr Bull (2014). 2014 Feb;38(1):40-4. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.112.042572.
There is emerging evidence that individuals who are mentally ill are overrepresented in the group of defendants prosecuted under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. This article discusses the background of blasphemy legislation in Pakistan, and proposes causal interactions between underlying mental illness in the defendant and prosecution for blasphemy. It sketches possible legal safeguards for such blasphemy defendants with mental illness in mental health legislation.
越来越多的证据表明,在根据巴基斯坦亵渎神明法被起诉的被告群体中,精神疾病患者的比例过高。本文讨论了巴基斯坦亵渎神明立法的背景,并提出了被告潜在精神疾病与亵渎神明起诉之间的因果关系。它勾勒了精神卫生立法中针对此类患有精神疾病的亵渎神明被告可能的法律保障措施。