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Pakistan: Death sentence for Christian youth on blasphemy charges sparks o
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A local court in Bahawalpur sent shockwaves across Pakistan after sentencing a 22-year-old Christian youth, Noman Masih, to death on blasphemy charges, BNN Network reported, adding that the court's decision has sparked outrage among human rights activists and religious minorities who have sa
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Pakistan: HRFP condemns blasphemy charges against Musarrat Bibi, Muhammad
Updated : 3 years ago IST
It is alleged that the two burned pages of the Quran in the school where Musarrat Bibi was working as a peon and Muhammad Sarmad was working as a gardener.
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Pakistan: Chinese man arrested on blasphemy charges released on bail
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A foreign national on the Dasu hydropower project in Kohistan district, who had been detained after a crowd accused him of committing blasphemy earlier this month, was ordered to be released by Judge Sajjad Ahmad Jan, reported The News.
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Chinese national faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The recent detention of a Chinese national in Pakistan has sent shockwaves through the international community. Tian, in charge of heavy machinery, for China Gezhouba Group Company at the World Bank-financed, Dasu hydropower project in the Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was detaine
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Chinese workers unsafe in Pakistan amid blasphemy accusations
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
An unnamed Chinese national, working on the Dasu Hydropower Project in the north was on April 17 taken into protective custody and flown out to safer Abbottabad after Pakistani workers on the project accused him of blasphemy.
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Pakistan court jails Chinese national charged with blasphemy
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Chinese man was produced before the court where he said he had been falsely accused, but the court sent the man to jail on judicial remand for 14 days.
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested on blasphemy charges airlifted to Abbo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in the country as even rumours of sacrilegious remarks can incite lynch mobs and deadly violence.
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Man booked on blasphemy charge in Pakistan's Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A team of Sara-i-Alamgir Sadar police reached the mosque after the locals called them and arrested the 30-year-old suspect on blasphemy charges and making an attempt on the life of another man at a mosque at Puraan village in Gujrat.
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Hindu man faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], August 22 (ANI): Over a personal clash with a local resident in Pakistan's Hyderabad, a man, belonging to minority Hindu community, was reportedly booked in a fake case of blasphemy on Sunday, several media reports said.
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Pakistan: Rights group horrified over 'cold-blooded murder' on blasphemy c
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 30 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Wednesday expressed concern about the "cold-blooded murder" of a woman by three female seminary colleagues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
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Christian man beaten up, arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], March 24 (ANI): A 54-year old Christian man was arrested and beaten on blasphemy charges by Pakistani authorities on March 16, local media reported.
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Minorities in Pakistan fear mob lynching over blasphemy accusations
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 10 (ANI): Regular episodes of attacks on the minorities' properties and their religious places on fake or inadvertent blasphemy charges in Pakistan have been occurring on daily basis.
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