Pakistani Christian Anjum Sandhu who was facing the death penalty after being accused of blasphemy has been acquitted. According this lawyer the case against Sandhu was fabricated. The case began in May 2015 when Sandhu, from Gujranwala in Pakistan's Punjab Province, went to the police to seek...
Pakistani Christian man is still on death row five years after blasphemy allegations against him sparked the attack on Joseph Colony A Muslim man had accused Sawan Masih, 30 of making blasphemous remarks against the prophet Muhammad on 9 March 2013, for which he was sentenced...
A blasphemy suspect is in critical condition after falling off the fourth floor of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) headquarters in Punjab. According to reports, the police handed over Patras Masih, 18, and his cousin Sajid Masih, 24, to the FIA’s cybercrime wing on Friday. Earlier this...
A 17 year-old Christian boy has been arrested for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. The alleged incident, led to a violent mob drove Masih’s family and other Christians in the village to flee their homes. Patras Masih, an illiterate cleaner from Tair village in Lahore is...
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has sentenced one to death and five others to life in prison over the horrific murder of a university student over claims of blasphemy. Mashal Khan was beaten and shot to death by an angry mob at Mardan’s Abdul Wali Khan University...
A Pakistani student accused of killing his college principal after allegedly accusing him of blasphemy has been remanded in custody. On Tuesday Charsadda District Court remanded Faheem, of 12th grade, in police custody for three days, over the incident in Shabqadar. Faheem is accused of firing six...
A Pakistani man has been exonerated after spending nine years of a life sentence in prison for blasphemy. Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that Mohammad Mansha was falsely accused and there was a lack of evidence against him. exonerated a man convicted of blasphemy after he served...
Five Pakistani activists who went missing earlier this year after using social media to speak out against religious intolerance have been cleared of blasphemy charges. The men vanished within days of each other in January, and four of them were later released, with some accusing their...
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...