カテゴリー: Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
Family of Dr Shah Nawaz can file murder charges against police officers over extrajudicial killing, official saysPakistan’s government has said police orchestrated the killing of a doctor who was in custody having been accused of blasphemy. Officers th…
From fragile leaders to invisible workers, anger is shimmering throughout the serpentine politics of Pakistan and IndiaOn the morning of 3 December, Priyantha Kumara, the 49-year-old export manager of Rajco Industries, asked his workers to remove a sti…
Hindu boy, accused of urinating in madrassa library, was youngest Pakistani to be charged for the crimePolice in Pakistan have dropped blasphemy charges against an eight-year-old Hindu boy after media and government pressure over his arrest.The boy, th…
Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel have been on death row since 2014 over ‘blasphemous texts’ they deny sendingA court in Pakistan has indefinitely delayed an appeal hearing for a Christian couple who have been on death row since 2014 after being con…