The death sentence is for a Protestant pastor who has been in prison since 2012, while the other was released on bail after four years in prison for Facebook comments.

Known as the desert land around the Aral See, the Karakalpakistan republic has seldom been of major interest to the outside world.

Decision cloaked for two months to deter Islamist backlash.

A Christian couple serving among Afghan refugees arriving in Pakistan, explain their difficult situation, especially that of Christians with a Muslim background.

The draft law will not be presented to Parliament, because the “environment to formulate it is unfavourable” and it “clashes with Islamic Sharia”, says the Religious Affairs Minister.

The entity was created by the government of Imran Khan. Pakistani Christians say it “quotes and voices the minority issues, but it has not real power” to protect them. 

A 50-year-old Christian sanitation worker was allegedly groped and had clothes torn off by her supervisor in front of other employees.

Supreme Court declines petition to protect Christian girls from forcible conversion to Islam and marriage to Muslims.

Church leaders and rights activists fear that shelter homes, police and courts facilitate the forced conversions of Christian girls.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom annual report denounces that “the pandemic fostered misinformation targeting religious minorities”.

The nurses were accused of “defiling the Koran”. A Muslim co-worker attacked one of them with a knife.

A large number of Islamist lawyers swarmed the courtroom during a hearing, an intimidation tactic designed to obtain convictions and harsh sentences.

The girl was allegedly kidnapped by three Muslims from the family’s home and forcibly converted to Islam.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has analysed the effects of blasphemy laws worldwide between 2014-18. 11% of the blasphemy-related incidents took place in Europe.

Mainline Protestant and Catholic churches in Pakistan have decided to petition courts against forcible conversion of underage girls.

This case has exposed the various ways minority girls are vulnerable based on class, caste, religion and gender.

Muslim mobs attacked a Christian area of Lahore, Pakistan after false the blasphemy allegation in March 2013.

During the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the WEA calls on Zimbabwean government “to address the causes of the country crisis, [...] to prevent violations of fundamental rights”.

The Lahore High Court’s refusal to take into account the documented age of Maira Shahbaz and the falsification of documents, including a fake marriage certificate, is unprecedented and could lead to more such cases.

A research of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts world population to shrink after mid-century. “The solution are open migration policies and social measures to support families”.

The task force, which has come to light more than six years after the Supreme Court forced its constitution, has already drawn criticism.

Officers were planning to frame him on trumped-up charges of making and selling liquor, because he upset them by complaining of police wrong-doing.

The Pakistani Christian absolved of death penalty shares details about her suffering as a “prisoner of fanaticism” . Journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet is co-author of the book.

Digital persecution is on the rise, the WWL 2020 shows. Asia Bibi’s release was one of the the good news.

Civil society reports estimate that in 2017 alone at least 50 individuals were imprisoned on charges of blasphemy, with at least 17 facing possible death sentences.