The Lahore High Court (LHC) in Pakistan has taken up the long-delayed appeal of Junaid Hafeez, a former university lecturer sentenced to death in 2019 on blasphemy charges linked to Facebook posts, with judges requesting prosecution arguments on the admissibility of the digital evidence against him. Hafeez, arrested in 2013 and convicted by a Multan district court after a trial marked by extreme intimidation — including the murder of one of his lawyers in 2014 — has had his appeal pending since 2020. The next hearing is scheduled for October 10, and the case is being watched closely as a test of how Pakistani courts handle electronic evidence in blasphemy proceedings, which carry the death penalty under Pakistani law.