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BLASPHEMY CASE PAKISTAN
Pakistani YouTuber's ‘295’ perfume sparks outrage—Now he faces a decade in prisonPakistani YouTube personality Rajab Butt has been charged with blasphemy after launching a perfume named "295," a reference to the country’...- Pakistan court awards death sentence to four over blasphemous content on FacebookThe court official said the convicts uploaded blasphemous content on Facebook from four different IDs. Pakistan's blasphemy laws are often ...
- Pastor shot at in Pakistan's Punjab, days after mob attack on Christians in provinceThe pastor, in his statement to police, said that an objectionable religious slogan in Arabic was written on the outer wall of the church. ...
- Mob attacks on Christian churches and homes in Pakistan set off by false implication, police sayAccording to authorities, three Christians tossed Islamic holy books outside the homes of two others to falsely accuse them of blasphemy be...
- Over 100 arrested, probe ordered in attacks on churches and homes of Christians in PakistanOver 100 people, including activists of the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), have been taken into custody over attacks on ...
- Pak to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges too; deal signed with radical Islamic group TLPThe radical Islamic group gained political capital as the federal government agreed to issue a letter declaring that the TLP was not a terr...
- Pakistan mob attacks Hindu man over alleged blasphemyMany people have been lynched to death in Pakistan on the mere accusation of blasphemy. Countless others languish in jails for years with n...
- Religion-fueled mobs on the rise again in Pakistanlynchings over offenses to Islam, real or imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists ...
- Pakistan court sentences woman school principal to death for committing blasphemyLahore police in 2013 had registered a blasphemy case against Tanvir on the complaint of a local cleric. She was accused of denying the fin...
- Pakistan National Bank's manager shot dead by security guard over 'blasphemy'Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence. Anyone convicted or even ju...
- Religious minorities continue to face violence in Pakistan: UN rights chief"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...
- Violence in Pakistan after Hindu veterinary doctor accused of blasphemyThe Mirpurkhas deputy commissioner said the government would compensate those whose properties were damaged during the violence.
- Pakistan institutionalised discrimination against minority groups: EU Parliament reportThe report, ‘Religious Minorities in Pakistan’, released in Brussels on Monday, was compiled by EU parliamentarians Alberto Cirio, Fulvio M...
- Pakistan court acquits Christian woman on death row for blasphemyIn a landmark verdict, Pakistan's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy.
- Pakistan among worst violators of religious freedom: USCIRF"In 2015, the Pakistani government continued to perpetrate and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations," t...
- Pakistan Supreme Court upholds death sentence of killer of former Punjab Governor Salman TaseerPakistan's Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer against the death sentence awarded ...
- Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi convicted for blasphemy files appeal in Supreme CourtLast month, a two-member Lahore High Court bench dismissed the appeal of Asia Bibi after her lawyers failed to prove her innocence in the c...
- Release Asia Bibi, Indian rights activists urge PakistanIndian human rights activists have appealed to Pakistan to release Asia Bibi, woman on death row in the country after being convicted for b...
- Amnesty International asks Pakistan to protect minority communities"This vicious mob killing is just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pak," said Griffith...
- 'Pak in grip of Islamic extremism'In Pakistan the blasphemy law was deliberately introduced to the penal code by General Zia in 1982 and then made even more stringent in 198...
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