A Pakistani court has sentenced one man to death and handed life terms to five others for murdering a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy.
Twenty-five others were convicted of lesser offences in the case and 26 people were acquitted.
Mashal Khan was dragged out of his university accommodation in north-west Pakistan in April 2017 by a crowd of hundreds of his fellow students.
He was badly beaten before being shot and his body mutilated.
The trial took place inside Haripur Central Jail for safety reasons. Security was tight for the verdict, with hundreds of police deployed and roads closed around the prison.
Blasphemy is an incendiary social and political issue in religiously conservative Pakistan.
In all 57 people were put on trial in connection with the murder, inc...
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