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...
Punjab, Pakistan | 1993–1995 A child who could not read or write. Two adult relatives accused alongside him. A blasphemy allegation based on writing allegedly placed on a mosque...
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...
Faisalabad, Punjab | 6 January 1992 He was a teacher, a former headmaster and a poet. He had not been convicted of any crime. No student had reportedly complained...
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...
Nazir Masih, an elderly Christian businessman, was severely beaten during a mob attack in Sargodha in May 2024 after allegations of Quran desecration. He died from his injuries on...
Blasphemy allegations against two Christian men triggered widespread violence in Jaranwala in August 2023. More than 20 churches and scores of Christian homes were attacked, burned or damaged.
Maulana Nigar Alam, a Muslim cleric, was killed by a mob at a political rally in Mardan in May 2023 after some participants interpreted words in his concluding prayer...
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...
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.
