The report documents cases from more than 30 districts and pointed out that the similarity of the blasphemy-linked ...

U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan ...

Global outrage follows the brutal lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, a Hindu garment worker in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. India, the ...

Speech is the core of our humanity. To suppress it is to strip people of their very essence, but that is what Pakistan's ...

Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, had been imprisoned for six years when he was sentenced to death in December 2019. The charge: blasphemy, specifically insulting Prophet Muhammad on ...

False blasphemy allegations are increasingly being used to target Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, leading to mob violence, ...

A 25-year-old Hindu factory worker, Dipu Chandra Das, was brutally lynched and his body set on fire by a mob in Bangladesh’s ...

In 1927, the British colonial rulers of the sub-continent made it a criminal offence to commit "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its ...

The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities reports a sharp increase in the weaponisation of blasphemy accusations ...

Das worked at Pioneer Knit Composite Factory in the Square Masterbari area and was the primary earner for his family, which ...

Among the biggest threats to religious freedom worldwide are blasphemy laws, the State Department said in its annual religious freedom report, released Wednesday. "I want to highlight this year the ...

Laws prohibiting blasphemy are “astonishingly widespread” worldwide, with many laying down disproportionate punishments ranging from prison sentences to lashings or the death penalty, the lead author ...