Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, had been imprisoned for six years when he was sentenced to death in December 2019. The charge: blasphemy, specifically insulting Prophet Muhammad on ...

U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan ...

The lynching of Dipu Chandra Das last month bears the grim stamp of what can happen to the rule of law if cases of blasphemy ...

While the world awaits the fate of Asia Bibi, who remains in hiding in Pakistan following the acquittal of her death sentence for blasphemy, religious freedom advocates are calling for an end to ...

Among the biggest threats to religious freedom worldwide are blasphemy laws, the State Department said in its annual religious freedom report, released Wednesday. "I want to highlight this year the ...

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle, wholeness, inclusion,” writes Isabel Allende, encapsulating a fundamental prerequisite for any form of ...

In 1927, the British colonial rulers of the sub-continent made it a criminal offence to commit "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its ...

Speech is the core of our humanity. To suppress it is to strip people of their very essence, but that is what Pakistan's ...

It’s not nice to insult someone’s religion. It’s offensive to deny, denigrate or mock people’s gods or prophets, beliefs or rituals. I shouldn’t do it and neither should you. But let’s say we do. We ...

Last year has seen some positive developments in the fight against outdated blasphemy laws. For example, in Ireland, as part of a referendum, a majority voted against the remaining blasphemy laws. In ...

The report documents cases from more than 30 districts and pointed out that the similarity of the blasphemy-linked allegations against Hindus points to systemic targeting in Bangladesh.

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