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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Arifwala / Sahiwal, Punjab | 1996–2002 A poor Christian bricklayer. A dispute with a neighbour. A blasphemy allegation. A village forced to leave. A shooting inside a courthouse. A...
