Posts Tagged ‘blasphemy law’
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Case against Rimsha’s dramatic turn prompts Pakistan religious leaders to debate blasphemy law
An unexpected twist in the Rimsha Masih blasphemy case appears to have paved the way for her freedom from apparently false charges of desecrating the Quran.
The imam who supported her accuser was himself arrested and appeare...
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Pakistani judge who sentenced governor’s assassin vanishes
The Pakistani judge who imposed a death sentence on the assassin of Punjab governor Salman Taseer has gone underground due to threats from Islamic fundamentalists, Pakistani church officials have confirmed. “It is true that the...
Christian Girl, Family in Pakistan Expelled over Misspelling
An 8th grade student in Pakistan has been expelled from school and her family forced to relocate after the Christian girl misspelled an Urdu word, leading to accusations of “blasphemy,” sources said. In the garrison city of Abb...
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Second high profile kidnapping in Pakistan targets son of slain governor Salman Taseer
The son of a slain governor in Pakistan — who was killed for opposing the country’s notorious blasphemy law — was kidnapped recently in an upscale neighborhood in Lahore. Shahbaz Taseer, 28, was on his way to work w...
Refugee status sought for Pakistani Christians
The head of a Christian congress in Pakistan announced recently that he will send an appeal to the United Nations to allow refugee status for Pakistani Christians because they do not feel safe in their own country. Dr. Nazir S....
Pakistani Muslim cleric extremists accuse the Bible of blasphemy
A group of extremist Muslim clerics demanded recently that Pakistan’s Supreme Court declare that some passages in the Bible are blasphemous, because they depict some prophets committing a number of moral excesses. The clerics, ...
Mentally ill Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy
A mentally ill man in Pakistan was picked up recently by local police and charged with blasphemy for “injuring religious feelings” in order to save him from the wrath of a mob led by Muslim clergy who had gathered in front of h...
Two Christian Pakistanis detained for alleged blasphemy
Two Christians in Pakistan were picked up by police and detained last Friday night for alleged violation of the country’s infamous blasphemy law. Mushtaq Gill, 60, and his son, Farrukh Mustaq Gill were picked up from the family...
Another Pakistani Christian leader gets death threats over blasphemy law
Another Christian leader in Pakistan has been receiving death threats because he spoke out against the blasphemy law in a local TV station in this country. Joseph Francis, head of the Center for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settle...
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Pakistan prime minister will not amend blasphemy law, Bibi transfers jails
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said recently that the blasphemy law will be retained just the way it is. In his address to religious scholars at the Ulema and Mashaikh Conference 2011 in Islamabad, Gilani assured th...
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