The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS-UK) is calling upon the Pakistani Government to take steps to end the misuse of the Blasphemy Laws. The Pakistani Government should use Human Rights Day on Monday 10 December to put fresh impetus on reviewing the place of laws in the Pakistani legal system and society…
Sawan Masih has been on death row since 2014, and his appeal is fixed to be heard on November 27 by the divisional bench before the Lahore High Court. Sawan Masih was accused by his Muslim friend Shahid Imran of making derogatory remarks against the Holy Prophet in 2013, and a case was registered against…
Asia Bibi’s lawyer has appealed to the German government to grant her and her family citizenship. In a news conference in Frankfurt Saiful Mulook said that while Bibi was now free, she and her family needed a passport to leave the country. The 53-year-old Pakistani Christian was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to…
Pakistan’s president has said the government will not amend the blasphemy law. President Dr Arif Alvi also said the government has no plan to recognise Israel. He made the remarks during an address at Governor’s House, Lahore, on November 17. Dr Alvi emphasised the need to highlight the true essence of Islam. In presence of…
Almost 200 parliamentarians have signed an open letter to the Pakistani Prime Minister urging the government to secure Asia Bibi’s safe removal from the country. According to media reports, although she has left the prison, she has not yet been allowed to leave the country. Paul Coleman, Executive Director of human rights organisation ADF International…
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi has been freed from jail after spending eight years on death row. It is believed she has already flown out of the city of Multan to an unknown secure destination in the country. She was freed after Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned her conviction under blasphemy charges and the death sentence…
The complainant in the Asia Bibi case has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court, asking it to reverse its decision to acquit the Christian woman and save her from the death penalty. The petition further asks for her name to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL), pending the outcome of any…
The Supreme Court has acquitted Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi and saved her from being hanged to death. Bibi, 51. was accused of blasphemy in 2010 and later sentenced to death. On Wednesday Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, heading the three-member bench comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, announced the Lahore High…
A Pakistani Christian woman has gone missing after going to buy shampoo on October 25. Saima Javed has not returned home since then and her family is anxious for any news about her. On October 30 the agitated family of the victim, led by her father Javed Masih, staged a protest on the road leading…
The President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani has spoken out this week about the case of Asia Bibi, who is still waiting to hear if she will face the death penalty for allegedly breaking Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Mr Tajani spoke about Asia’s plight at the Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg on wednesday and urged…
