blasphemy

Curated By: Shankhyaneel SarkarLast Updated: July 22, 2023, 11:14 ISTLondon, United Kingdom (UK)Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups are implementing blasphemy laws and unlawfully taking punitive measures against UK’s citizens who have the…

Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Koran in Sweden, a day after protesters stormed the country's embassy in…

LONDON: A new report by a UK think tank has warned that there is a tacit blasphemy lawoperating in the UK even though blasphemy is legal in Britain.Anti-blasphemy laws still exist in many countries, most notably in Pakistan where blasphemy…

A Pew Research Center report shows only 7 percent Pakistanis consider the Ahmadiyya to be Muslims. (Representational image: Reuters/File)Pakistan law prohibits the Ahmadiyyas from calling themselves Muslim and observing Islamic festivals,…

LAHORE: Succumbing to the demands of a radical Islamist party, the Pakistan government has agreed to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges in addition to the other sections of the country's penal code.The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan…

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ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday approved former premier Imran Khan's interim bail pleas for multiple cases, hours before the PTI chief was arrested at the Islamabad high court by paramilitary Rangers.ATC judge Raja…

Issued on: 08/05/2023 - 21:14 Paris (AFP) – Iran on Monday hanged two men on charges of spreading blasphemy on social media, prompting US condemnation and accusations…

DUBAI: Iran hanged two men Monday convicted of blasphemy, authorities said, carrying out rare death sentences for the crime as executions surge across the Islamic Republic following months of unrest.Iran remains one of the world's top…

<!-- -->Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan (Representational)Peshawar: A man was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of blasphemy at a rally for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's party, officials said…