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.
Arrested in 2020 over allegations involving religious material shared online, three Ahmadi men spent years in detention. Their story examines the UN’s finding of arbitrary detention, subsequent reports of...
Patras and Sajid Masih’s case connects a reported cricket dispute and alleged digital framing with community threats and allegations of abuse in FIA custody.
Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old university student, was lynched in Mardan in 2017 after being accused of blasphemy. A later official investigation found no evidence supporting the allegation.
Shama Bibi and Shahzad Masih, a Christian brick-kiln couple with three children, were killed by a mob in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014 after an allegation of Quran desecration.
An alleged blasphemous Facebook post triggered mob violence against Ahmadi families in Gujranwala in July 2014. A woman and her two young granddaughters died when homes were set on...
Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel were sentenced to death in 2014 over alleged blasphemous text messages. After seven years on death row, Lahore High Court acquitted the Christian couple...
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...
