381SharesThe recent extra judicial killing in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan by a policeman of a man acquitted by the court on the charge of blasphemy, after spending 3 years in jail, shows that Pakistan is drifting more and more towards savagery on its own citizens, often with legal sanction. In Pakistan, mere accusation of someone of blasphemy […]
The Harvard Pakistan Student Group (HPSG) has condemned blasphemy accused Junaid Hafeez’s death sentence and released a statement which reads as follows. The Harvard Pakistan Student Group expresses grave concern at the conviction awarded to Junaid Hafeez by the Sessions Court, Multan under section 295(c) of the Pakistan Penal Code. The HPSG believes that the […]
789SharesUnited Nations human rights experts have urged Pakistan’s high court on Friday to clear academic Junaid Hafeez of blasphemy charges and overturn his death sentence. According to a report by Reuters, UN human rights experts have described Hafeez’s sentence by a lower court last week as a ‘travesty of justice’ and said that senior judges […]