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UN Human Rights Council urged to act against apostasy and blasphemy executionsA global rights group, Jubilee Campaign, has urged nations to abolish death penalty laws for apostasy and blasphemy, citing violations of f...- 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 ...
- Pakistani Maulana Tariq Masood, known for demanding death for blasphemy, now hiding to save his own lifePakistani cleric Maulana Tariq Masood, known for advocating the death penalty for blasphemy, is now accused of the same crime. His remarks ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bangladesh Christian Association demands end to persecution against Pak ChristiansA sessions court in Lahore on September 8, 2020 sentenced Asif Pervaiz, 37, a Pakistani Christian, to death for “misusing” his phone to sen...
- 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chief"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...
- 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.
- Nawaz Sharif orders action against blasphemous social media content"Those behind this heinous crime should be dealt with, without any delay," Sharif ordered Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Kha...
- US lawmaker seeks changes in Pak blasphemy law"Two Sindhi Hindu teenagers shot in Sindh. Another arrested for Blasphemy. Pakistan's Blasphemy law needs to be changed. Now," Congressman ...
- Former Pakistan Governor's assassin hangedPakistan today executed former police commando Mumtaz Qadri, convicted for assassinating former Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
- 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's Punjab province to defend victims of blasphemy lawThe suspects are languishing in jails and are not being convicted because of lack of evidence, and unavailability of their counsel.
- 'Sentencing of Pakistan media mogul will have chilling effect'Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of Geo and Jang group, was handed down the prison term in absentia for allowing the broadcast of a "blasphemous...
- Vendor arrested under blasphemy law in PakistanPakistani police have arrested a vendor under the controversial blasphemy law for allegedly burning the pages of Quran in Lahore, officials...
- Another Pak minister gunned down by Taliban militantsPakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a vocal opponent of the controversial blasphemy law, was on Wednesday gunned down by T...
- '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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