Pakistan
On Tuesday, the Lahore High Court acquitted Sawan Masih, a street sweeper from the eastern city of Lahore who was sentenced to death in March 2014 under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws “A Lahore High Court division bench headed by Justice Syed Shehbaz Ali Rizvi acquitted Sawan Masih,” a court official told PTI on Tuesday. The […]
Asia Bibi, the Christian mother who spent a decade on death row after being falsely accused of blasphemy, has urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to campaign for the release of Christian girls kidnapped and forced into Islamic marriage. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bibi highlighted the plight of underage Christian girls who are abducted and […]
14-year-old Pakistani girl, Maira Shahbaz who was abducted, forced to marry her abductor and renounce her faith, has escaped from her captor. Shahbaz successfully fled the home of businessman Mohamad Nakash just weeks after the Lahore High Court ordered her to be returned to the home of her abductor to “be a good wife.” Shahbaz […]
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