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BLASPHEMY LAWS IN PAKISTAN
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’...
- 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 PM Imran Khan reassures president over Sri Lankan's lynchingImran Khan said in an overnight tweet that he spoke to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by phone to convey the country's anger and s...
- Pakistan police: Mob kills Sri Lankan over alleged blasphemyPolice said initial information shows the Sri Lankan, later identified as Priyantha Kumara, a manager at the facility, was lynched inside t...
- 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chief"The (Pakistan) Government, despite recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, has not amended or repealed blasphemy law p...
- Protesters on the boil in Pakistan against acquittal of Christian woman in blasphemy caseAsia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- '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...
- 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...
- 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...
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