Younus Shaikh, Date of Birth

    

Younus Shaikh

Pakistani activist

Date of Birth: 30-May-1952

Profession: physician

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Younus Shaikh

  • Mohammed Younus Shaikh (Punjabi, Urdu: ???? ???? ????, born 30 May 1952) is a Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist and freethinker. When he was a teacher at a medical college in Islamabad, Shaikh was an active member of the South Asia Peace Movement and of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).
  • He took part in the Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy, and was a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
  • A free-thinker, he founded Enlightenment, an organization associated with the IHEU. In October 2000, Pakistani authorities charged Shaikh with blasphemy.
  • A judge ordered that he pay a fine of 100,000 rupees, and sentenced him to death by hanging.
  • On appeal, on 20 November 2003, a court acquitted Shaikh, who fled Pakistan for Europe soon thereafter.

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