E/CN.4/1995/91 page 71 Khara Janje village in Punjab, Muslim villagers reportedly burned down at least 12 houses belonging to Christian families, following the discovery of the corpse of an 18-year-old Muslim Sheikel. Muslim villagers are reported to have stated that an 18-year-old Christian, Safraiz, who was involved with Sheikel’s sister, killed him. Safraiz was reportedly being held in custody while the police conducted investigations. Other cases The Special Rapporteur has been informed of the other following cases: (a) Arshad Javed, a Muslim, was reportedly sentenced to death on 9 February 1993 by the District and Sessions Court in Bahawalpur in Punjab province for having claimed that he was Jesus Christ. He is also reported to have been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for having said that he had read and approved Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. Arshad Javed is said to have been arrested on 14 February 1989 for having claimed at a demonstration of students protesting against the Satanic Verses that he was Jesus Christ, that God was his father and that judgement day would be on 21 February 1989. The demonstrators reportedly beat him and gagged him to a police station, where he was arrested and accused of blasphemy. Arshad Javed is in fact reported to be mentally ill. After a year’s treatment in a psychiatric hospital, he was transferred to Bahawalpur Central Prison. Appeal proceedings before the High Court of Lahore are said to be continuing. (b) Hafij Farooq Sajjad, a Muslim, is said to have been stoned to death by a crowd in Gujranwala (Punjab province) on 21 April 1994. Sajjad’s father is reported to be a member of the Jamaat-e-Islamic party and Sajjad is reported to be a faithful Muslim, a hafiz-e-Qur’an (a person who has learned the entire Koran by heart). According to certain information, it was reported that some pages of the Koran had been burned during a fight in Sajjad’s house. A Muslim religious leader reportedly announced by loudspeaker that a Christian had burned the Koran and that he should be stoned to death. Subsequently, the crowd beat Sajjad and locked him up in this house. Shortly thereafter, the police are said to have taken him to the police station. However, it is reported that the crowd, which had grown larger by then, attacked the police station, stoned Sajjad, drenched him in kerosene and burned him, probably alive. The victim’s body was then reportedly tied behind a motorbike and dragged through the town. It is reported that the police instituted proceedings against five persons, but none was arrested. (c) In Lahore in July 1994, an extremist group called ’Tehrik Tahaffuz-i-Namoos-i-Risalat’ (Movement for the Preservation of the Sanctity of Prophethood) reportedly distributed stickers and posters calling for the murder, for blasphemy, of the President of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission, Mrs. Asma Jahangir, and three Christian leaders, Tariq C. Qaisor, Father Julius and J. Salik." On 11 November 1994, the Permanent Mission of Pakistan transmitted the following information in reply to the allegations of 21 October 1994: