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Chinese national faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months 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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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested for blasphemy denies allegations in co
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Chinese national, who works as head of heavy transport at a major hydropower project, was accused on April 15 of insulting Prophet Muhammad for allegedly urging workers to speed up their pace of work as they took a prayer break, Al Jazeera reported.
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Chinese workers unsafe in Pakistan amid blasphemy accusations
Updated : 2 years, 11 months 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 : 2 years, 11 months 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 : 2 years, 11 months 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 : 2 years, 11 months 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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Pakistan: Blasphemy case registered against woman
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The post, which was reportedly blasphemous, triggered a protest in the locality, and a mob gathered outside the woman's house and vandalised the house.
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Pakistan: Lahore HC Bar Association highlights need for action against bla
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The notification of the Lahore High Court Bar Association showcases how little progress Pakistan has made as a country with regard to "weaponizing" blasphemy. Further, according to the news report, Pakistan has learnt nothing from the mistakes committed as a country which has led to internat
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Grave human rights violations continue non-stop in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Grave human rights violations continued unabated, including enforced disappearances, torture, crackdowns on peaceful protests, attacks against journalists and violence against religious minorities and other marginalised groups in Pakistan, reported Amnesty International South Asia.
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Target killing of minorities continues unabated in Pakistan, Christian man
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A Christian man was shot dead in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, in what officials say is the second incident of target killing of minorities in the last 24 hours, reported The Khorasan Diary.
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Pakistan: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased, says repo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy laws, the estab
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Pakistan: Human Rights Observer report highlights increase in content agai
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) on Thursday issued the "Human Rights Observer 2023", an annual fact sheet. The report covers five key issues impacting religious minorities including discrimination in the education system, the prevalence of forced faith conversions, abuse of blasphemy law
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