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Internet ‘vigilantes’ behind the rise of online blasphemy cases in Pakistan

October 15, 2024 admin

Family members of Pakistani youth indicted for alleged online blasphemy protest in Islamabad on October 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Aroosa Khan’s son was chatting on WhatsApp but suddenly found himself the target of “vigilante” investigators who accused him of having committed blasphemy online, a crime that carries the death penalty in Pakistan. The…

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Pakistani court sentences Christian man to death for posting hateful content against Muslims

July 1, 2024 admin

Local residents look a spot where a Muslim mob lynched and burned a man over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, in Madyan, a town in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, June 21, 2024. A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and…

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Muslim mob torches police station in Pakistan, lynches man for alleged blasphemy

June 21, 2024 admin

Plainclothes police officers examine the burnt furniture which were torched by a Muslim mob in an attack, in Madyan in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, June 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, June 20, 2024 broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there…

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Pakistani court sentences youth to death and another to life in prison for insulting Islam’s Prophet

March 11, 2024 admin

While authorities have yet to carry out a death sentence for blasphemy, just the accusation can provoke riots. Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS A Pakistani court sentenced a 22-year-old student to death and gave a teenager a life sentence in two separate cases after finding them guilty of insulting Islam’s…

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