Members of a Pakistani parliamentary committee have had it is necessary to prevent the misuse of the blasphemy law. On Thursday the chairwoman of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights, Senator Nasreen Jalil, said innocent people have suffered and been wrongly accused of blasphemy. The committee...
A Pakistani Christian man who is accused of blasphemy has been released on bail. Iqbal Masih was charged under blasphemy law section 298 PPC (Pakistan Penal Code) on November 4. The section states that whoever with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any...
The United States has recommended that Pakistan repeals its blasphemy law. At the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held in Geneva, the US also suggested that Pakistan grant the visit request of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of...
A Pakistani Christian man with mental health issues who was arrested on the day of his son’s funeral has been charged with blasphemy and is being held in custody. Iqbal Masih, 65, who is a retired father of nine, and is from Fazlia Colony, Lahore, has...
Five Pakistani Christian families were forced to flee their homes after the teenager from one of the families was accused of blasphemy. According to reports, the families from the village of Sukheki in the Punjab province went into hiding last Friday after a fake Facebook page...
Three European parliamentarians are visiting Pakistan in relation to Asia Bibi’s blasphemy case The delegation from the Group of European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) are in the country this week to discuss its human rights situation. Peter van Dalen, Delegation Leader and European Parliamentarian for Christian Unity...
The family of a Pakistani Christian man who died before being able to prove himself innocent of blasphemy allegations are calling for his name to be cleared. Mukhtar Masih, who was arrested on suspicion of committing blasphemy died on 3rd November. He was arrested on 28th January...
Two Pakistani non-Muslim boys have been arrested under the blasphemy law for allegedly burning swept papers containing Quranic verses. A case was registered on September 28 at Bunga Dhongha, police starting in Bahawalnagar under blasphemy law section 295 B for desecrating the Holy Quran or its...
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, has been nominated for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. She was sentenced to death seven years ago under the country’s blasphemy law. She was accused of blasphemy after arguing with a Muslim woman who told her she could not...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi has refused to talk about the country’s blasphemy laws at the United Nations General Assembly. He is currently in New York to attend the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly and was speaking at a session organised by...