Five Pakistani Christian families were forced to flee their homes after teenager from one of the families was accused of blasphemy. According to reports the families from the village of Sukheki in the Punjab province went into hiding last Friday after a fake Facebook page that resembled a news channel accused Sonu Arshad, 18, of…
Three European parliamentarians are visiting Pakistan in relation to Asia Bibi’s blasphemy case The delegation from the Group of European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) are in the country this week to discuss its human rights situation. Peter van Dalen, Delegation Leader and European Parliamentarian for Christian Unity SGP, Tomasz Poreba (Roman Catholic from Poland) and…
The family of a Pakistani Christian man who died before being able to prove himself innocent of blasphemy allegations are calling for his name to be cleared. Mukhtar Masih, who was arrested on suspicion of committing blasphemy died on 3rd November. He was arrested on 28th January for for allegedly committing blasphemy but he always…
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior has approved a bill for an increase in the marriageable aged for women to 18, despite opposition from the Pakistan Muslim League-N. The Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2017 was moved two weeks ago by PPP Senator Sehar Kamran. It suggests the minimum age women can be married be raised…
A 12-year-old Pakistani Christian girl was raped and tortured three men. Meshal was abducted from her home in Sheikhupura and raped by three men, who also burnt her with cigarettes. According to her mother the incident was reported to police but an FIR has not been registered and no action has been taken against the…
A Pakistani Christian asylum seeker has died in a Thai detention centre. Khurram Chohan died on 19 October in Bangkok due to heart failure. He is survived by his two young children, Marriam aged 6, and Moses aged 5, his wife and his elderly parents who live in Lahore, Pakistan. His family is facing many…
A 15-year-old Pakistani Christian boy was beaten to death by police after refusing to convert to Islam. Arslan Masih, from Sheikhupura, Punjab, was set upon by the officers in front of 60 students and a teacher who was beaten when he tried to intervene. Arslan’s mother claims his Muslim classmates had been pressuring him to…
Two Pakistani non-Muslim boys have been arrested under the blasphemy law for allegedly burning swept papers containing Quranic verses. A case was registered on September 28 at Bunga Dhongha, police starting in Bahawalnagar under blasphemy law section 295 B for desecrating the Holy Quran or its contents against Christian Vishal Masih and Hindu Bhola Ram.…
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, has been nominated for the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. She has sentenced to death seven years ago under the country’s blasphemy law. She was accused of blasphemy after arguing with a Muslim woman who told her she could not drink from the same cup as her because…
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi has refused to talk about the country’s blasphemy laws at the United Nations General Assembly. He is currently in New York to attend the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly and was speaking at a session organised by U.S. think tank Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Kenneth…
