UN slams Pakistan for human rights abuses
Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence, the UN Human Rights...
Man beaten, stoned to death, falsely accused of blasphemy
In Pakistan and many other persecuted nations, blasphemy laws have served effectively as
a death sentence for Christian minorities. In addition to the obvious legal...
Muslim abducts Christian girl, 12, forces marriage/conversion
A Muslim in Pakistan abducted and forcibly converted and married a 12-year-old Christian
girl as police delayed efforts to recover her, family members said.
Parveen Shaukat,...
One city emerges as capital of false blasphemy charges
By Massimo Introvigne --
On August 12, in the Kasur area of Punjab, police registered a criminal case involving blasphemy charges against two women—one being...
The women who work in the brick kilns in Pakistan
Amid the steady hum of chatter exists a silent symphony of suffering where women toil day
and night to meet not only their brick quota,...
Tourist lynched and burned alive for alleged blasphemy
By Massimo Introvigne --
After the case of Christian Nazir Gil Masih, lynched in Sargodha on May 25 after he was falsely accused of having burned...
Five Christian sanitation workers die from unsafe conditions
Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday (June 11) from
inhaling toxic gases, highlighting how they are forced to work without proper...
Christian on death row for 22 years because of letter he...
In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic
body to advise on whether a letter that left a...
Christian woman thrown into hay cutting machine denied justice
Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her
Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards...
Man lynched after accusation of desecrating Qur’an
A man was violently lynched by a mob after he was accused of desecrating the Qur’an in
the Madyan area of the Swat Valley in...
