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The Voice of the Martyrs
Matt 5:11-12 "Blessed are you when men cast insults
at
you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely,
on account of Me.
Police try to extract bribe after attacking
home; in Rawalpindi, militants attack chapel.
VEHARI, Pakistan, April 8
(CDN) —
Police here
filed false charges of alcohol possession against 47 Christians,
including women and children, on March 28 in an attempt to intimidate
and bribe them, Christian leaders said.Police broke into and ransacked the home of Shaukat Masih at 10:15 p.m. on Palm Sunday, manhandled his wife Parveen Bibi, and threatened to charge them and 45 other area Christians with alcohol possession if they did not pay a bribe, said attorney Albert Patras. The Christians refused.
Those charged include two children and eight women. Patras said that three of the 37 Christian men, Shaukat Masih, Moula Masih and Shanni Masih, secured pre-arrest bail and thus averted detainment by Dane Wall police in Vehari, in Punjab Province. None of the others named in the First Information Report is being held either.
“Police are not interested in their arrest, instead they were trying to extort some money from the destitute Christians,” Patras said. “Police thought that Christians, being a soft target, would readily be bribed to save their families, particularly their girls and women.”