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Blasphemy Laws

Was 2012 The Year It All Went Wrong For Free Speech?

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 27.12.2012 | UK
Read More: English Pen, Blasphemy Laws, Mexico Journalists, UK News, Twitter, Poppy Burning, Free Speech, Poll, Index on Censorship, Pussy Riot, Facebook, Louise Mensch, Censorship, Twitter Joke Trial, Leveson Inquiry, UK News

Was 2012 the year it became too risky to post a risqué joke on Twitter? It was the year of the mob rule on social networking, when trolls attacke...

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Muslim Leaders Call For Blasphemy Law In UK And At UN

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 14.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Anti Muslim Film, Blasphemy Laws, Islam, UK News, UK World, Pakistan, United Nations, UK Islam, The Muslim Council of Britain, Blasphemy, Muslim Protests, UK News

The United Nations will once again debate the merits of a "blasphemy law", framed by the bloody violence in the Middle East and North Africa over the ...

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Pakistani Christian Teen Freed After Quran Burning Blasphemy Charges

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Pakistan Christian Discrimination, Blasphemy Laws, UK News, Pakistan Christian Girl, Pakistan, Pakistan Teenager, Pakistan Blasphemy Laws, Pakistan Christians, UK News

A Pakistani Christian girl, hounded for burning pages of the Quran, has been freed from a jail near Islamabad, a local official has confirmed. Rims...

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Not In My Name: Islam, Pakistan and the Blasphemy Laws

Mehdi Hasan | Posted 20.10.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Religion, Islam, Blasphemy Laws, Islamabad, Pakistan, Rifta Masih, Race Relations, UK, World, UK Politics News
Mehdi Hasan

The imprisonment of this Christian child isn't only about Pakistan or Pakistanis. Those of us who claim to be members of a global Muslim ummah cannot be silent when such flagrant human-rights abuses are committed in the name of Islam and in the world's second-biggest Muslim-majority nation.

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The Unsung hero of Pakistan's Struggle for Pluralism

David Griffiths | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Shahbaz Bhatti, Blasphemy Laws, Pakistan Air Force, Zia Ul-Haq, Cecil Chaudhry, Lahore, Pakistan, UK News
David Griffiths

May the legacy of an unsung hero live on.

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