A coalition of 17 international human rights organizations is demanding Pakistan be suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due its blasphemy laws and other rights violations, but local activists say that could result in more hardship…
Authorities in Pakistan have failed to curb a range of human rights violations, including a sharp increase in blasphemy-related violence, the UN Human Rights Committee noted last week.
A former Army general in Nigeria said his death sentence following riots more than 30 years ago was the result of Muslim military leaders controlling a sham tribunal.
Expressing alarm over an increase in false blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, the UN Human Rights Committee last week urged repeal or amending of the country’s harsh blasphemy laws.
Muslims in Sudan’s River Nile state on Oct. 19 drove 34 displaced Christians from their homes, sources said.
China has subjected hundreds of North Koreans to atrocities since last year by forcibly returning them to a country whose leaders hold that religion, especially Christianity, is the greatest threat to its power, experts say …
Christians in Sudan are caught between two fighting factions, with each military group accusing them of siding with the other, an advocacy group said.
A British army veteran who served in Afghanistan was found guilty today (Oct. 16) for praying silently near an abortion clinic in England.
