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...
Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 after allegations of blasphemy. Pakistani courts later convicted dozens of participants.
An eight-year-old Hindu boy was accused of blasphemy in Bhong in 2021. After a court granted him bail, a mob attacked and damaged a Hindu temple before authorities intervened.
A blasphemy allegation against Sawan Masih triggered mass violence in Lahore's Joseph Colony in 2013. More than 100 Christian homes were burned. Seven years later, the Lahore High Court...
Rimsha Masih was a Christian child with learning difficulties when she was arrested for blasphemy in Islamabad in 2012. After alleged evidence tampering came to light, the Islamabad High...
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...
Shahbaz Bhatti served as Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs and advocated religious freedom, interfaith harmony and reform. On 2 March 2011, gunmen assassinated him in Islamabad after repeated...
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer publicly supported Asia Bibi and criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy law. On 4 January 2011, one of his own police guards assassinated him in Islamabad.
Asia Bibi, a Christian farm worker, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010. After years in prison, Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned her conviction and acquitted her in October...
In August 2009, an unsubstantiated blasphemy allegation triggered deadly violence in Gojra, Punjab. Christian homes were burned; families were attacked and multiple people died before authorities said there was...
