Posts Tagged ‘blasphemy laws’
News
Pakistani Woman Accused of ‘Blasphemy’ Illegally Held in Jail
The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the mandatory 14-day period against the young Christian woman falsely accused of...
Pakistani woman charged with blasphemy for rejecting Islam
A young mother has been falsely accused of “blaspheming” Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, because she rebuffed attempts by relatives who had converted to Islam to force her to renounce her Christian faith, family members said. P...
Arts & Culture
UK-based band to release single to honor those who died protesting Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
Ooberfuse, an experimental music project based in the United Kingdom has written and will release a song, Blood Cries Out, to honor the memory of those who lose their lives in defense of the marginalized and oppressed. They are...
Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ in Pakistan Denied Bail
A judge has denied bail to a young Christian man charged with desecrating the Quran under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws despite the lack of evidence against him, sources said. Police in Shahdara, near Lahore, had arre...
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, ...
Featured
Christian woman in Pakistan sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy
A Christian wife and mother in Pakistan has been sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, 45, was also fined some $1,135—about two and a half year’s earnings for a farm worker—for saying defamatory statements abo...
News
Human rights groups seek repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy law
Leaders from over a dozen international human rights organizations joined forces recently in the Pakistan Christian Congress held at Reeves Center, Washington DC to seek the repeal of the much abused blasphemy law, and to fight...
The Christian Lawyers Foundation decries Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
The Christian Lawyers Foundation called recently for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws because they are being used for personal vengeance and financial gain. Blasphemy is punishable by either life imprisonment or death. C...