Abdul Ali was moved to a fortified police station in Quetta after hundreds demanded he be handed over over a blasphemy allegation. A police officer allegedly entered posing as...
In July 2012, a homeless man accused of burning the Quran was taken into police custody in Channi Goth. A crowd of more than 1,000 stormed the station, lynched...
Lahore, Punjab | 2003–2004 He was already in prison; seriously ill with tuberculosis. He was transferred to a hospital for treatment. A police constable was assigned to guard him....
Lahore, Punjab | 1992 He had been accused of blasphemy. He was taken to a police station for questioning.His accuser was there too. And inside the very place where...
Lahore, Pakistan | 1990–1992 A man confined to a wheelchair. A blasphemy allegation he never lived long enough to answer at trial. Repeated warnings that his life was in...
Dr Shahnawaz Kunbhar was accused of blasphemy in Umerkot in September 2024. Police claimed he died in a shootout, but a Sindh government inquiry later found the encounter had...
Muhammad Waris was already in police custody when a mob stormed Warburton Police Station in Nankana Sahib in 2023, dragged him from his cell and lynched him over a...