Killing of Tahir Naseem
![Location of [[Peshawar District]], within the province of [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Peshawar_District%2C_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.png)
On 29 July 2020,
Tahir Ahmed Naseem, an American citizen from
Illinois, was shot and killed in a courtroom in
Peshawar, Pakistan. Naseem, who had been in police custody since 2018, was accused of having committed blasphemy, a criminal offence under the
Pakistan Penal Code.
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