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THE government’s decision to establish a commission “for implementation of national narrative and development of structures against violent extremism and radicalisation” is a significant move towards countering violent extremism (CVE) and terrorism (CT) in the long term. In a meeting last month, (...)
Chemical castration is no remedy for curbing sexual violence, any more than is public hanging, which an enraged citizenry has been increasingly demanding as punishment for rapists. The procedure does, however, give the impression of being proactive. It could silence those who believe the (...)
THAT prisons in Pakistan are overcrowded is no secret. Prisons being unsanitary and disease-ridden is another familiar story across the country. Prisoners living in difficult conditions is a known but easily forgettable fact. Prisons are kept out of sight, and prisoners even more so. In a world (...)
International Human Rights Commission (IHRC-HK) appeal to the government of Pakistan to immediately release Mr. Junaid Hafeez who is languishing in Multan, Punjab, prison for more than five years on the baseless charges of blasphemy. His case is a typical example of miscarriage of justice where (...)
Pakistan’s blasphemy law needs to be sentenced to death — not so-called ‘blasphemers.’
On Saturday, Multan-based academic Junaid Hafeez became the latest to be given the death sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan.
The 33-year-old former lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University had been arrested in (...)
Amnesty calls verdict in Junaid Hafeez’s trial a ‘vile and gross miscarriage of justice’
A Pakistani university lecturer has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that his family and human rights groups have decried as a gross miscarriage of justice.
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at the (...)
A district and sessions court in Multan on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, a former university lecturer, to death on blasphemy charges.
Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Hafeez was booked on blasphemy (...)
What is the price of 18 years of one’s life spent on death row, despite being innocent of the crime that put one there? On Wednesday, the Supreme Court acquitted Wajih-ul-Hassan of blasphemy for which he had been sentenced to capital punishment in 2002. The court ruled that the prosecution was (...)
There have been many ineffective campaigns against deaths in police custody in the past, and we should like to hope that the present public outrage will lead to some concrete steps to rid the country’s criminal justice system of one of its major flaws.
The signs, though, are not very promising. (...)
Blasphemy laws are the most controversial laws in Pakistan, which have been affecting many individuals and communities’ lives, especially religious minorities, since the 980s. Asia Bibi’s, Christian women and mother of five, high-profile case once again shows how these laws have been misused (...)
Farhatullah Babar urges the Senate to take the conversation on blasphemy law forward.
The acquittal by the Supreme Court of Aasia Bibi last week – after she spent years on death row on false blasphemy charges – has brought into focus once again the issue of misuse of blasphemy law in Pakistan. (...)
Administration accused of signing Bibi’s ‘death warrant’ in deal with hardliners.
Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin the process of preventing her leaving the country.
Bibi, a Christian farm labourer, was acquitted of (...)
Lahore, 1 November 2018. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has greatly welcomed the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement acquitting 47-year-old Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death. In a statement issued today, HRCP has said:
’While there (...)
* Most courageous decision by top judges in favour of most exploited
* AWP welcomes decision of the Supreme Court
Awami Workers Party salute the courageous decision of the Supreme Court to acquit Asia Bibi from false blasphemy charges. Awami Workers Party Spokesperson Farooq Tariq said in a (...)
Christian woman to be freed after being sentenced in 2010, accused of insulting prophet Muhammad.
Pakistan’s supreme court has struck down the death sentence for blasphemy handed down to Christian woman Asia Bibi, in a long-delayed, landmark decision that will free her after nine years on death (...)
The Asma Jahangir Conference 2018, centering on the theme ‘Justice for Empowerment’ concluded successfully on 17 October 2018.
A wide range of sessions were held, focusing on the protection of fundamental rights, justice for all and impunity for none, freedom of expression, and challenges to (...)
The Awami Workers Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the vicious treatment meted out by the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) to Sajid Masih, cousin of Patras Masih, a Christian accused by rightwing groups of blasphemy in Shahdara Lahore. AWP also rejects the internal inquiry (...)
Mashal Khan’s murder and the killing of Naqeeb Ullah Mehsud sparked an unprecedented outrage against this religious and sectarian brutal murder and the complicity of state officials.
No one seems to be satisfied with the Mashaal murder case verdict. It seems like our colonial era judicial (...)
Press release
HRCP decries denial of fair trial to blasphemy accused
Lahore, February 9: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is outraged that the case of Junaid Hafeez, who was arrested in March 2013 after a student group accused him of blasphemy, has been transferred to yet (...)
(December 26, 2017) - Despite the security challenges, Pakistan Christians, a tiny minority, celebrated Christmas with religious fervour. Just a week before the Christmas day, another terrorist attack struck a church in Pakistan. By attacking the church in Quetta, which was full of worshipers, (...)
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