The Pakistan Penal Code outlaws blasphemy (Urdu: قانون ناموس رسالت) against any recognized religion, with punishments ranging from a fine to the death...

According to human rights groups, blasphemy laws in Pakistan are often exploited, even against Muslims, to settle personal rivalries or to persecute minorities...

was convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court and was sentenced to death by hanging. In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted her based...

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A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or...

student at a Pakistani university where he was teaching as visiting teacher as well. He was convicted of blasphemy under Pakistan's broad blasphemy laws and...

the Punjab Assembly of Pakistan. Tehreek-e-Labbaik is known for its protests against any changes to the blasphemy law in Pakistan. It demands that Sharia...

"Teenager in Hiding After Blasphemy Accusation, Pakistani Police Say". New York Times. October 13, 2012. "Pakistan 'Blasphemy Boy' Ryan In Hiding". Worthynews...

that Christians fill about 80% of the manual sewer cleaning jobs in Pakistan. Blasphemy allegations have led to several cases of mob violence against Christian...

criminalizes apostasy in Pakistan." On the other hand, the Pakistani government can impose the death penalty for blasphemy. Pakistani blogger Ayaz Nizami...

fornication, and types of blasphemy), and new punishments (of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death), were added to Pakistani law. Interest payments...

and the State in Pakistan: Blasphemy Politics. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-61999-1. Hoffman, Matt (2014). "Modern Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan and the Rimsha...

forms, including violence, discrimination, and blasphemy laws. The persecution of Christians in Pakistan is a result of a number of factors, including...

fled from Pakistan after receiving threats to her life and faced potential legal charges for blasphemy in Pakistan. Ilyas received asylum in the Netherlands...

relief to the minorities. In 2022, Freedom House rated Pakistan’s religious freedom as 1 out of 4, noting that the blasphemy laws are often exploited by...

and killed in a courtroom in Peshawar, Pakistan. Naseem, who had been in police custody since 2018, was accused of having committed blasphemy, a criminal...

Nizami is a blogger and political prisoner in Pakistan known for his arrest on 24 March 2017 for alleged blasphemy, with a possible death penalty for such...

"Rifta" or "Riftah") is a Pakistani girl from Islamabad, who was arrested by the Pakistani police on blasphemy charges in August 2012 when she was 14...

Kausar are a Pakistani Christian couple who in 2014 were convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, receiving a sentence of death by hanging. In 2021, the...

an organization associated with the IHEU. In October 2000, Pakistani authorities charged Shaikh with blasphemy. A judge ordered that he pay a fine of 100...

regard blasphemy as a crime, including insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, speaking the sacred name in Judaism, and blasphemy of God's...

punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage...

against any change to Pakistan's blasphemy law. Fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic and Persian, he was known for his speeches in the defense of the Islamic...

South Asian Studies (EFSAS) in a report entitled, Guilty until proven innocent: The sacrilegious nature of blasphemy laws Pakistan, recommended wide-ranging...

enforcement officials and religious minorities, resulting in the loss of dozens of lives. Pakistan's blasphemy laws illustrate one of the most extreme instances...

to death for blasphemy". AP News. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 25 January 2025. "Death toll from last week's gas tanker explosion in Pakistan rises to 18"...

controversial against the religion." National politics and blasphemy In March 2017, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif supported a crackdown on blasphemous...

Society in Pakistan: Politics of Authority, Ideology and Ethnicity (1996) Springer, p. 53 Forte, D. F. (1994), Apostasy and Blasphemy in Pakistan, Conn...

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