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THE ACCUSED

By Mohammed NAQVI

Social issues - Completed 2020

Powerful cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi is running for the highest office in the upcoming elections. He is on a mission to preserve the country's blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death sentence for disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad.

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CPH:DOX 2020

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CPH:DOX 2020

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- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- USA, UNITED KINGDOM, PAKISTAN
- Languages
- URDU, ENGLISH, PASHTU
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Mohammed NAQVI
- Producer(s)
- Mohammed NAQVI (64th Street Media)
- Synopsis
- In Pakistan, the blasphemy law prescribes a compulsory death sentence for disrespecting Prophet Muhammad and life imprisonment for desecrating the Qur’an.
  
  This documentary follows the stories and fates of four people accused of blasphemy. The most famous of them is Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who claims she was falsely accused by her Muslim co-workers after a disagreement. As the elections in Pakistan loom, the country is split between those who feel the law is being misused and want to change it, and those who believe it must be preserved at any cost. Its greatest advocate, cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, goes on a mission to do just this. As his campaign heats up, he gathers millions of supporters, sympathetic to his goal, and silences anyone attempting to change the law by condemning them to death.
  
  As the world awaits the outcome of Asia Bibi’s trial, Rizvi uses the blasphemy law as a key platform to run for prime minister of Pakistan in the upcoming elections. Amidst the hysteria, those who oppose him and even his own followers become pawns in the ultimate quest for power.

THE ACCUSED

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