Nationality Pakistani Name Rashid Rehman | Children 3 Occupation Lawyer | |
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Died May 7, 2014, Multan, Pakistan | ||
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Rashid Rehman (13 October 1958 – 7 May 2014) was a prominent Pakistani lawyer and a regional coordinator for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). He was well known for his work with clients who were poor or who were charged under Pakistan's vigorous blasphemy laws. After he became the defence lawyer for Junaid Hafeez in a controversial and widely publicized blasphemy case, he received death-threats but refused to abandon his client. He was shot and killed by gunmen on 7 May 2014.
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