Lawiza Buda rocks on the sand, wailing with grief for her husband, Usman Buda, murdered by a mob in a marketplace after being accused of blasphemy. “Ya Allah! Ya Allah!” Lawiza screams. Two friends attempt to comfort her, but their own sorrow takes hold and they too burst into tears. Lawiza had fainted when the news of her husband’s gruesome killing reached her.
Usman Buda, a father of six, was stoned to death on 25 June after he made a passing remark to a beggar that was taken by the mob as a slur on the prophet Muhammad.
