The London-based Khan was charged with the crime by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), a United Kingdom-based independent investigation agency, which works in collaboration with the police and courts, on 28 June. According to a report by Pakistan news agency, The News, “ Mohhamed Gohir Khan is in high-security custody and will be produced at the Old Bailey on 19 July”, Monday.The target was allegedly Ahmad Waqass Goraya, a social media activist who had gone missing for some weeks in 2017. A ‘liberal’ blogger, Goraya is known for his alleged anti-establishment activism and had been accused of posting blasphemous content on his Facebook page. Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Pakistan and can attract death penalty. Goraya took refuge in Netherlands in 2017, and in an interview claimed that he was afraid for his life and had been advised to be “careful” by his friends and family. He had claimed then that his activism was “based on the universal declaration of human rights”.
“This is the least we can achieve in Pakistan – the right to assembly, equal rights for all citizens irrespective of their gender, race and faith”, he had added in the 2017 interview.Who is Mohhamed Gohir Khan? Khan, who finished school in Lahore, Pakistan, moved to London soon after. He is believed to have gained British citizenship through marriage. Khan’s financial records also show that he owned several cargo businesses, one of which was declared bankrupt in February 2020.
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