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List of blasphemy cases in Pakistan

According to human rights groups, blasphemy laws in Pakistan are often exploited, even against Muslims, to settle personal rivalries or to persecute minorities. Almost any person that speaks out against blasphemy laws or proceedings is in danger of being lynched or killed by a mob.[1]

Arrests and death sentences issued for blasphemy laws in Pakistan go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the implementation of these laws, no one has yet been executed by the order of the courts or government. People have only been imprisoned to await a verdict or killed at the hands of felons who were convinced that the suspects were guilty.[2][3]

Incidents

Year Case
1996 On 14 October, Pakistani police arrested Ayub Masih, a Christian bricklayer, for violation of penal code § 295-C. Muhammad Akram, a Muslim neighbour of Masih, complained to the police that Masih had said Christianity was right, and Masih had suggested that Akram read Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.[4][5] The same day that Masih was arrested, Muslim villagers forced the entire Christian population of Masih's village (fourteen families) to leave the village. Masih's family had applied under a government program that gave housing plots to landless people. Local landlords resented Masih's application because the landlords had been able to oblige landless Christians to work in the fields in exchange for a place to live. Masih's application gave him a way out of his subservience to the landlords.[6] Upon Masih's arrest, the authorities gave Masih's plot to Akram.[4] Akram shot and injured Masih in the halls of the Session Court at Sahiwal on 6 November 1997. Four assailants also attacked Masih in jail. The authorities took no action against Akram or against the other assailants.[4] On 20 April 1998, Judge Abdul Khan sentenced Masih to death and levied a fine of 100,000 rupees. Two judges of the Lahore High Court heard Masih's appeal on 24 July 2001. Shortly thereafter, the judges affirmed the judgment of the trial court.[4] On 16 August 2002, the Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside the judgment of the lower courts. The Supreme Court noted Akram's acquisition of Masih's property and concluded the case had been fabricated for personal gain. The court also noted other breaches in the law of due process.[7][8]
1997 On 6 and 7 February, a mob of approximately 30,000 Muslims burned and looted the villages of Shanti Nagar and Tibba near Khanewal in Punjab.[9][10] The riot began after loudspeakers accused the local Christian population of ripping pages from the Quran and scribbling insults against Mohammed in the margins.[11] The attacks saw the destruction of at least 785 homes as well four churches and forced over 2,500 Christians to flee.[12] In 2013, villagers in Shanti Nagar erected the then largest cross in Pakistan in memory of the attack.[13]
2000 In October, Pakistani authorities charged Younus Shaikh, a physician, with blasphemy on account of remarks that students claimed he made during a lecture. The students alleged that, inter alia, Shaikh had said Muhammad's parents were non-Muslims because they died before Islam existed. A judge ordered that Shaikh pay a fine of 100,000 rupees, and that he be hanged.[14] On 20 November 2003, a court retried the matter and acquitted Shaikh, who fled Pakistan for Switzerland soon thereafter.[15]
2005 On 11 August, Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the Anti-Terrorist Court found a different Younus Shaikh guilty of “defiling a copy of the Quran, outraging religious feelings and propagating religious hatred among society.”[16] Shaikh was arrested after openly distributing copies of his book, Shaitan Maulvi (Satanic Cleric), in which he wrote that stoning to death was not mentioned in the Quran as a punishment for adultery. The book also said that four historical imams were Jews.[17] The judge imposed upon Shaikh a fine of 100,000 rupees, and sentenced him to spend his life in jail.[18]
2005 On 23 December, five men from the Mehdi Foundation International were arrested in Lahore for putting up posters of their leader, Riaz Gohar Shahi, which claimed that he was the Mahdi. They were all later sentenced to five years each by the Anti-Terrorism Court for violation of penal code § 295-A.[19]
2006 On 3 June, following protests by the country's Christian minority, Pakistan banned the The Da Vinci Code (film) for theorizing about the descendants of Jesus Christ. Although the book had been available for some time, culture minister Ghulam Jamal said that "Islam teaches us to respect all the prophets of God Almighty and degradation of any prophet is tantamount to defamation of the rest."[20][21]
2009 On 22 January, Hector Aleem, a Christian peace activist, was arrested in Islamabad after having allegedly sent a member of Sunni Tehreek a blasphemous text message.[22] He was later cleared of the blasphemy charges, but remained jailed on charges of fraud and smuggling.[23]
2009 In June, Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman from Punjab, was arrested and prosecuted under penal code 295C after supposedly making derogatory remarks about the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[24] Bibi was convicted and sentenced to death in November 2010, as well as fined the equivalent of $1,100.[25] On 8 October 2018, following several unsuccessful appeals, Bibi's death sentence was overturned by Pakistan's Supreme Court.[26] However, she was prevented from leaving the country by order of the Government of Pakistan until 8 May 2019 when she was reunited with her family in Canada.[27]
2009 In July, eight Pakistani Christians were killed in the Punjabi town of Gojra after members of the then-banned Sipah-e-Sahaba attacked and burned their homes. Christians in the neighboring village of Korrian had allegedly torn up pages of the Quran during a wedding, but the Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said this was untrue and that the police had ignored his instructions to protect Gojra's Christian community.[28][29][30]
2010 In July, a trader in Faisalabad complained that one of his employees had been handed a pamphlet which contained disrespectful remarks about Muhammad. According to the police, the pamphlet appeared to have the signatures and addresses of Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and his brother Sajid, who were Christians. The brothers were shot and killed while being escorted by the police from a district court. Both had denied the charge of blasphemy.[31] Following their murder, rumors spread that angry Christians were burning Muslim homes, prompting hundreds of Muslim men to gather in Christian neighborhoods. They then clashed with nearby Christians before the police dispersed the crowd.[32] An anti-terrorism court later sentenced Maqsood Ahmed, a Muslim man, to death for the double-murder of Rashid and Sajid.[33]
2011 On 4 January, Salman Taseer, govern of Punjab, was shot dead in Islamabad by his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri for his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws and his support for Asia Bibi.[34] Qadri was sentenced to death on 1 October by an anti-terrorism court and, after several failed appeals, was executed on 29 February 2016.[35]
2011 On 2 March, Shahbaz Bhatti, who was a Catholic member of the National Assembly, was killed by gunmen in Islamabad as he was travelling to work, a few weeks after he had vowed to defy death threats over his efforts to reform Pakistan's blasphemy laws.[36]
2012 In August, a Christian girl named Rimsha Masih was arrested for blasphemy in Islamabad for allegedly burning pages of a Quran or a book containing verses from the Quran.[37][38] Masih, who was described as being between the ages of 11 and 16, could not read or write.[39] The charges against her were dropped following widespread international concern. Masih and her family left Pakistan shortly thereafter to settle in Canada.[40]
2013 On 18 June, Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, a Christian couple from Gojra, were arrested for allegedly sending a mosque cleric a text message that insulted Muhammad.[41] The couple, who are illiterate, claimed that the offending text had been sent from a lost mobile phone and that the case was motivated by a personal grudge.[42] On 4 April 2014, they were both convicted and sentenced to death.[43][44] On 3 June 2021, the Lahore High Court overturned the convictions due to lack of evidence and the couple were shortly thereafter granted asylum in an unspecified European country.[45][46]
2014 In January, Muhammad Asghar, a 70-year-old British man from Edinburgh, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by a court in Rawalpindi. Asghar had initially been arrested in 2010 after sending letters in which he declared himself a prophet, and had lived in Pakistan for several years prior to his arrest and trial.[47] Following a stroke in 2010, doctors in Edinburgh diagnosed Asghar with paranoid schizophrenia. He spent a month in a psychiatric hospital before leaving for Pakistan.[48] In September 2014, Asghar was shot in the back by a prison guard for reasons unknown.[49]
2014 On 18 September, Shakil Auj, Dean of Islamic Studies at Karachi University, was assassinated by unknown gunmen while driving in Karachi following accusations of blasphemy.[50]
2016 In first of its kind case, a 30-year-old Shiite Taimoor Raza has been sentenced to death by Anti-Terror Court, for posting blasphemous content on Facebook.[51][52] He was booked in 2016 after he engaged in sectarian debate with a counter-terrorism official on Facebook.[53]
2016 In November, a Facebook campaign was launched by the followers of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, against Malik Shahrukh, a PhD researcher who was previously associated with an Islamabad-based diplomatic news publication. Malik was accused of calling the Quran "an ordinary book, produced by Mohammad for economic and political purposes." A video of the local Imam of Sargodha, in which he incited people during the Friday sermon to kill Malik, went viral. Several applications were made to the authorities against Malik, demanding that he be sentenced to death. Authorities could not arrest Malik because he was not in Pakistan at the time. Sources claim that Malik is being framed for criticizing Tahreek-e-Labbaik and its chief.[54]
2017 In March, Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif supported a crackdown on blasphemous material posted on social media and described blasphemy as an "unpardonable offence".[55][56] Shortly after, Pakistani blogger Ayaz Nizami, founder of realisticapproach.org,[57] an Urdu website about atheism, and Vice President of Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan,[58] was detained under the charges of blasphemy and could face the death penalty.[59][60]
2017 In April, Mashal Khan, a Pakistani student at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, was killed by an angry mob following allegations that he posted blasphemous content online.[61][62]
2017 In July, Faisal Mahmood was charged with blasphemy law U/S 295C by the court of magistrate special judicial Gujarat and could be sentenced to death.[63]
2017 In December, a 58-year-old man accused of blasphemy was freed after spending over nine years in jail. Bahawalnagar District court and Lahore High Court sentenced the man to life imprisonment which was overruled by Supreme Court of Pakistan as the evidence used was not in accordance with the Evidence Act.[64]
2019 Junaid Hafeez, formerly a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, was sentenced to death for blasphemy after being arrested in 2013 and accused of insulting Muhammad on Facebook. Hafeez's first attorney, Rashid Rehman, was murdered in his office in 2014 after agreeing to represent Hafeez. The verdict prompted an outcry from human rights groups; Amnesty International called it a "'vile and gross miscarriage of justice."[65][66]
2020 In June, Sajid Soomro, an assistant professor at Shah Abdul Latif University was arrested after allegedly claiming that Islam is a male dominated religion. Another professor from Sindh University Dr Arfana Mallah came under severe pressure for supporting and terming blasphemy law to be unfair. Various NGOs including Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned misuse of blasphemy law in case of professor Sajid Soomro.[67][68]
2020 In July, Qamar Riaz, a local leader in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, attempted to file a blasphemy case against former Minister for Foreign Affairs Khawaja Muhammad Asif for allegedly saying "Islam and all religions are equal" in a speech to Pakistan's National Assembly.[69][70][71]
2020 In September, Asif Pervaiz, a Christian man, was sentenced to death by a Lahore court for sending a "blasphemous" message to his former work supervisor in 2013. Pervaiz said that his supervisor had tried to convert him to Islam, which he refused to do; however, the court rejected his testimony.[72]
2021 In September, a court in Lahore sentenced Salma Tanveer, a school principal, to death for allegedly distributing photocopies of her writings denying the finality of prophethood and claimed herself as a prophet. She had initially been arrested on 3 September 2013.[73][74][75]
2021 On 25 November, four Muslim men were charged with blasphemy for arguing with a imam while requesting to allow a funeral announcement from the village mosque for a Christian neighbour.[76]
2021 On 28 November, A police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was burned down by a mob after the police there refused to hand over a mentally-unstable blasphemy suspect.[77][78]
2021 On 3 December, Priyantha Kumara, a Buddhist Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot, was tortured and burnt to death on the street by a mob of Muslims after he was accused of desecrating posters bearing Muhammad's name.[79][80]
2022 On 8 February, a Hindu teacher, Nautan Lal, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court in Sindh for blasphemy. Lal was arrested in September 2019 following the posting of a video on social media in which a student claimed that Lal had committed blasphemy against Muhammed.[81][82]
2022 On 12 February, a mentally unstable man was beaten to death by a mob of over 300 in Punjab after a mosque custodian accused him of desecrating the Quran. The police attempted to take custody of the man, but were pelted by stones and forced to retreat.[83][84]
2023 On 4 February, Wikipedia was blocked in Pakistan after failing to remove undisclosed “blasphemous content.”[85] The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) gave the Wikimedia Foundation a 48-hour deadline to remove the offending material, which was reportedly ignored.[86] The ban was lifted on 7 February by order of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif following widespread criticism.[87] Sharif also authorized the creation of a committee to review and offer alternative technical solutions for dealing with objectionable online content.[88]
2023 On 11 February, Muhammad Waris, a Muslim man, was lynched in the city of Nankana Sahib by an angry mob after having been arrested by police on the charge of blasphemy. In footage of the incident posted to social media, hundreds of people surrounded the police station where Waris was being held. He was then dragged through the streets, stripped of his clothes, and beaten to death with metal rods and sticks.[89][90]
2023 On 17 April,[a] a Chinese transport supervisor employed at the Dasu dam in northern Pakistan was accused of disrespecting Islam by the Pakistani transport drivers working under him after allegedly admonishing the drivers for delaying in reporting to work after their prayer time during the month of Ramadan. About 400 residents gathered to protest after the labourers accused the engineer of uttering disrespectful comments. For his safety, the accused Chinese supervisor was transported to a police station in Komila and flown thereafter to Abbottabad. The police arrested the Chinese supervisor after filing a FIR against him in accordance with Section 295-C of the Pakistani Penal Code.The FIR also referenced Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.[92][93][94][95][96] According to Jibran Ahmad of Reuters, the arrested Chinese national was subsequently released on bail, with police officials stating the case may be a misunderstanding. Such bail is exceptional in Pakistan, where judges usually postpone blasphemy cases for many years, worrying about reprisals.[97]
2023 On 5 August, Abdul Rauf Baloch, an English teacher, was killed by unidentified gunmen in the city of Turbat in southern Balochistan following accusations of blasphemy from some of his students. Rauf, who denied the allegations, was on his way to explain his position to a jirga of over 100 ulema when he was murdered.[98][99] On 8 August, protestors at a rally organized by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee[b] condemned Rauf's murder and accused the jirga of being involved in some way.[100] On the same night as the demonstration, Sameer Baloch, Rauf's brother, and his wife, Hani Baloch, were abducted by unidentified armed men from their home in the city of Iranshahr in Iran. Their current whereabouts are unknown.[101]
2023 On 16 August, an armed mob of Muslims set fire to at least four churches and several homes in Jaranwala in eastern Punjab following accusations that two Christian men had desecrated the Quran.[102][103] The crowd, which numbered in the thousands, were reportedly led by clerics and included members of the far-right Islamic extremist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.[104] Akmal Bhatti, Chairman of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan, accused the government and local administration of failing to protect Christian residents.[105] In response to the attack, a spokesperson for Amnesty International stated that “the authorities in Pakistan must immediately address the climate of impunity around violence against religious minorities” and that “the vicious mob attacks are just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pakistan after a blasphemy accusation.”[106] The police, who were accused of inaction during the attacks by some eyewitnesses, later arrested over 120 people for their involvement in the unrest.[107]

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Timeline as per Dawn : Alleged incident happened on April 15, arrested in Upper Kohistan district on April 16, Lodged the FIR on April 17, Date of court hearing and bail ? [91]
  2. ^ Also known as the Baloch Solidarity Committee (BSC)

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See also Blasphemy in Pakistan According to human rights groups blasphemy laws in Pakistan are often exploited even against Muslims to settle personal rivalries or to persecute minorities Almost any person that speaks out against blasphemy laws or proceedings is in danger of being lynched or killed by a mob 1 Arrests and death sentences issued for blasphemy laws in Pakistan go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s Despite the implementation of these laws no one has yet been executed by the order of the courts or government People have only been imprisoned to await a verdict or killed at the hands of felons who were convinced that the suspects were guilty 2 3 Contents 1 Incidents 2 See also 3 Notes and references 3 1 Notes 3 2 ReferencesIncidents EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2023 Year Case1996 On 14 October Pakistani police arrested Ayub Masih a Christian bricklayer for violation of penal code 295 C Muhammad Akram a Muslim neighbour of Masih complained to the police that Masih had said Christianity was right and Masih had suggested that Akram read Salman Rushdie s Satanic Verses 4 5 The same day that Masih was arrested Muslim villagers forced the entire Christian population of Masih s village fourteen families to leave the village Masih s family had applied under a government program that gave housing plots to landless people Local landlords resented Masih s application because the landlords had been able to oblige landless Christians to work in the fields in exchange for a place to live Masih s application gave him a way out of his subservience to the landlords 6 Upon Masih s arrest the authorities gave Masih s plot to Akram 4 Akram shot and injured Masih in the halls of the Session Court at Sahiwal on 6 November 1997 Four assailants also attacked Masih in jail The authorities took no action against Akram or against the other assailants 4 On 20 April 1998 Judge Abdul Khan sentenced Masih to death and levied a fine of 100 000 rupees Two judges of the Lahore High Court heard Masih s appeal on 24 July 2001 Shortly thereafter the judges affirmed the judgment of the trial court 4 On 16 August 2002 the Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside the judgment of the lower courts The Supreme Court noted Akram s acquisition of Masih s property and concluded the case had been fabricated for personal gain The court also noted other breaches in the law of due process 7 8 1997 On 6 and 7 February a mob of approximately 30 000 Muslims burned and looted the villages of Shanti Nagar and Tibba near Khanewal in Punjab 9 10 The riot began after loudspeakers accused the local Christian population of ripping pages from the Quran and scribbling insults against Mohammed in the margins 11 The attacks saw the destruction of at least 785 homes as well four churches and forced over 2 500 Christians to flee 12 In 2013 villagers in Shanti Nagar erected the then largest cross in Pakistan in memory of the attack 13 2000 In October Pakistani authorities charged Younus Shaikh a physician with blasphemy on account of remarks that students claimed he made during a lecture The students alleged that inter alia Shaikh had said Muhammad s parents were non Muslims because they died before Islam existed A judge ordered that Shaikh pay a fine of 100 000 rupees and that he be hanged 14 On 20 November 2003 a court retried the matter and acquitted Shaikh who fled Pakistan for Switzerland soon thereafter 15 2005 On 11 August Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the Anti Terrorist Court found a different Younus Shaikh guilty of defiling a copy of the Quran outraging religious feelings and propagating religious hatred among society 16 Shaikh was arrested after openly distributing copies of his book Shaitan Maulvi Satanic Cleric in which he wrote that stoning to death was not mentioned in the Quran as a punishment for adultery The book also said that four historical imams were Jews 17 The judge imposed upon Shaikh a fine of 100 000 rupees and sentenced him to spend his life in jail 18 2005 On 23 December five men from the Mehdi Foundation International were arrested in Lahore for putting up posters of their leader Riaz Gohar Shahi which claimed that he was the Mahdi They were all later sentenced to five years each by the Anti Terrorism Court for violation of penal code 295 A 19 2006 On 3 June following protests by the country s Christian minority Pakistan banned the The Da Vinci Code film for theorizing about the descendants of Jesus Christ Although the book had been available for some time culture minister Ghulam Jamal said that Islam teaches us to respect all the prophets of God Almighty and degradation of any prophet is tantamount to defamation of the rest 20 21 2009 On 22 January Hector Aleem a Christian peace activist was arrested in Islamabad after having allegedly sent a member of Sunni Tehreek a blasphemous text message 22 He was later cleared of the blasphemy charges but remained jailed on charges of fraud and smuggling 23 2009 In June Asia Bibi a Catholic woman from Punjab was arrested and prosecuted under penal code 295C after supposedly making derogatory remarks about the Islamic prophet Muhammad 24 Bibi was convicted and sentenced to death in November 2010 as well as fined the equivalent of 1 100 25 On 8 October 2018 following several unsuccessful appeals Bibi s death sentence was overturned by Pakistan s Supreme Court 26 However she was prevented from leaving the country by order of the Government of Pakistan until 8 May 2019 when she was reunited with her family in Canada 27 2009 In July eight Pakistani Christians were killed in the Punjabi town of Gojra after members of the then banned Sipah e Sahaba attacked and burned their homes Christians in the neighboring village of Korrian had allegedly torn up pages of the Quran during a wedding but the Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said this was untrue and that the police had ignored his instructions to protect Gojra s Christian community 28 29 30 2010 In July a trader in Faisalabad complained that one of his employees had been handed a pamphlet which contained disrespectful remarks about Muhammad According to the police the pamphlet appeared to have the signatures and addresses of Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and his brother Sajid who were Christians The brothers were shot and killed while being escorted by the police from a district court Both had denied the charge of blasphemy 31 Following their murder rumors spread that angry Christians were burning Muslim homes prompting hundreds of Muslim men to gather in Christian neighborhoods They then clashed with nearby Christians before the police dispersed the crowd 32 An anti terrorism court later sentenced Maqsood Ahmed a Muslim man to death for the double murder of Rashid and Sajid 33 2011 On 4 January Salman Taseer govern of Punjab was shot dead in Islamabad by his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri for his opposition to Pakistan s blasphemy laws and his support for Asia Bibi 34 Qadri was sentenced to death on 1 October by an anti terrorism court and after several failed appeals was executed on 29 February 2016 35 2011 On 2 March Shahbaz Bhatti who was a Catholic member of the National Assembly was killed by gunmen in Islamabad as he was travelling to work a few weeks after he had vowed to defy death threats over his efforts to reform Pakistan s blasphemy laws 36 2012 In August a Christian girl named Rimsha Masih was arrested for blasphemy in Islamabad for allegedly burning pages of a Quran or a book containing verses from the Quran 37 38 Masih who was described as being between the ages of 11 and 16 could not read or write 39 The charges against her were dropped following widespread international concern Masih and her family left Pakistan shortly thereafter to settle in Canada 40 2013 On 18 June Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar a Christian couple from Gojra were arrested for allegedly sending a mosque cleric a text message that insulted Muhammad 41 The couple who are illiterate claimed that the offending text had been sent from a lost mobile phone and that the case was motivated by a personal grudge 42 On 4 April 2014 they were both convicted and sentenced to death 43 44 On 3 June 2021 the Lahore High Court overturned the convictions due to lack of evidence and the couple were shortly thereafter granted asylum in an unspecified European country 45 46 2014 In January Muhammad Asghar a 70 year old British man from Edinburgh was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by a court in Rawalpindi Asghar had initially been arrested in 2010 after sending letters in which he declared himself a prophet and had lived in Pakistan for several years prior to his arrest and trial 47 Following a stroke in 2010 doctors in Edinburgh diagnosed Asghar with paranoid schizophrenia He spent a month in a psychiatric hospital before leaving for Pakistan 48 In September 2014 Asghar was shot in the back by a prison guard for reasons unknown 49 2014 On 18 September Shakil Auj Dean of Islamic Studies at Karachi University was assassinated by unknown gunmen while driving in Karachi following accusations of blasphemy 50 2016 In first of its kind case a 30 year old Shiite Taimoor Raza has been sentenced to death by Anti Terror Court for posting blasphemous content on Facebook 51 52 He was booked in 2016 after he engaged in sectarian debate with a counter terrorism official on Facebook 53 2016 In November a Facebook campaign was launched by the followers of Khadim Hussain Rizvi against Malik Shahrukh a PhD researcher who was previously associated with an Islamabad based diplomatic news publication Malik was accused of calling the Quran an ordinary book produced by Mohammad for economic and political purposes A video of the local Imam of Sargodha in which he incited people during the Friday sermon to kill Malik went viral Several applications were made to the authorities against Malik demanding that he be sentenced to death Authorities could not arrest Malik because he was not in Pakistan at the time Sources claim that Malik is being framed for criticizing Tahreek e Labbaik and its chief 54 2017 In March Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif supported a crackdown on blasphemous material posted on social media and described blasphemy as an unpardonable offence 55 56 Shortly after Pakistani blogger Ayaz Nizami founder of realisticapproach org 57 an Urdu website about atheism and Vice President of Atheist amp Agnostic Alliance Pakistan 58 was detained under the charges of blasphemy and could face the death penalty 59 60 2017 In April Mashal Khan a Pakistani student at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan was killed by an angry mob following allegations that he posted blasphemous content online 61 62 2017 In July Faisal Mahmood was charged with blasphemy law U S 295C by the court of magistrate special judicial Gujarat and could be sentenced to death 63 2017 In December a 58 year old man accused of blasphemy was freed after spending over nine years in jail Bahawalnagar District court and Lahore High Court sentenced the man to life imprisonment which was overruled by Supreme Court of Pakistan as the evidence used was not in accordance with the Evidence Act 64 2019 Junaid Hafeez formerly a lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan was sentenced to death for blasphemy after being arrested in 2013 and accused of insulting Muhammad on Facebook Hafeez s first attorney Rashid Rehman was murdered in his office in 2014 after agreeing to represent Hafeez The verdict prompted an outcry from human rights groups Amnesty International called it a vile and gross miscarriage of justice 65 66 2020 In June Sajid Soomro an assistant professor at Shah Abdul Latif University was arrested after allegedly claiming that Islam is a male dominated religion Another professor from Sindh University Dr Arfana Mallah came under severe pressure for supporting and terming blasphemy law to be unfair Various NGOs including Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned misuse of blasphemy law in case of professor Sajid Soomro 67 68 2020 In July Qamar Riaz a local leader in the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf attempted to file a blasphemy case against former Minister for Foreign Affairs Khawaja Muhammad Asif for allegedly saying Islam and all religions are equal in a speech to Pakistan s National Assembly 69 70 71 2020 In September Asif Pervaiz a Christian man was sentenced to death by a Lahore court for sending a blasphemous message to his former work supervisor in 2013 Pervaiz said that his supervisor had tried to convert him to Islam which he refused to do however the court rejected his testimony 72 2021 In September a court in Lahore sentenced Salma Tanveer a school principal to death for allegedly distributing photocopies of her writings denying the finality of prophethood and claimed herself as a prophet She had initially been arrested on 3 September 2013 73 74 75 2021 On 25 November four Muslim men were charged with blasphemy for arguing with a imam while requesting to allow a funeral announcement from the village mosque for a Christian neighbour 76 2021 On 28 November A police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was burned down by a mob after the police there refused to hand over a mentally unstable blasphemy suspect 77 78 2021 On 3 December Priyantha Kumara a Buddhist Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot was tortured and burnt to death on the street by a mob of Muslims after he was accused of desecrating posters bearing Muhammad s name 79 80 2022 On 8 February a Hindu teacher Nautan Lal was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court in Sindh for blasphemy Lal was arrested in September 2019 following the posting of a video on social media in which a student claimed that Lal had committed blasphemy against Muhammed 81 82 2022 On 12 February a mentally unstable man was beaten to death by a mob of over 300 in Punjab after a mosque custodian accused him of desecrating the Quran The police attempted to take custody of the man but were pelted by stones and forced to retreat 83 84 2023 On 4 February Wikipedia was blocked in Pakistan after failing to remove undisclosed blasphemous content 85 The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority PTA gave the Wikimedia Foundation a 48 hour deadline to remove the offending material which was reportedly ignored 86 The ban was lifted on 7 February by order of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif following widespread criticism 87 Sharif also authorized the creation of a committee to review and offer alternative technical solutions for dealing with objectionable online content 88 2023 On 11 February Muhammad Waris a Muslim man was lynched in the city of Nankana Sahib by an angry mob after having been arrested by police on the charge of blasphemy In footage of the incident posted to social media hundreds of people surrounded the police station where Waris was being held He was then dragged through the streets stripped of his clothes and beaten to death with metal rods and sticks 89 90 2023 On 17 April a a Chinese transport supervisor employed at the Dasu dam in northern Pakistan was accused of disrespecting Islam by the Pakistani transport drivers working under him after allegedly admonishing the drivers for delaying in reporting to work after their prayer time during the month of Ramadan About 400 residents gathered to protest after the labourers accused the engineer of uttering disrespectful comments For his safety the accused Chinese supervisor was transported to a police station in Komila and flown thereafter to Abbottabad The police arrested the Chinese supervisor after filing a FIR against him in accordance with Section 295 C of the Pakistani Penal Code The FIR also referenced Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act 92 93 94 95 96 According to Jibran Ahmad of Reuters the arrested Chinese national was subsequently released on bail with police officials stating the case may be a misunderstanding Such bail is exceptional in Pakistan where judges usually postpone blasphemy cases for many years worrying about reprisals 97 2023 On 5 August Abdul Rauf Baloch an English teacher was killed by unidentified gunmen in the city of Turbat in southern Balochistan following accusations of blasphemy from some of his students Rauf who denied the allegations was on his way to explain his position to a jirga of over 100 ulema when he was murdered 98 99 On 8 August protestors at a rally organized by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee b condemned Rauf s murder and accused the jirga of being involved in some way 100 On the same night as the demonstration Sameer Baloch Rauf s brother and his wife Hani Baloch were abducted by unidentified armed men from their home in the city of Iranshahr in Iran Their current whereabouts are unknown 101 2023 On 16 August an armed mob of Muslims set fire to at least four churches and several homes in Jaranwala in eastern Punjab following accusations that two Christian men had desecrated the Quran 102 103 The crowd which numbered in the thousands were reportedly led by clerics and included members of the far right Islamic extremist party Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan 104 Akmal Bhatti Chairman of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan accused the government and local administration of failing to protect Christian residents 105 In response to the attack a spokesperson for Amnesty International stated that the authorities in Pakistan must immediately address the climate of impunity around violence against religious minorities and that the vicious mob attacks are just the latest manifestation of the threat of vigilante violence which anyone can face in Pakistan after a blasphemy accusation 106 The police who were accused of inaction during the attacks by some eyewitnesses later arrested over 120 people for their involvement in the unrest 107 See also Edit Crime portal Law portal Pakistan portal Religion portalApostasy in Islam Court system of Pakistan Pakistan 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