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Pakistan police arrest 150 for burning Christian homes in Lahore

Mar 10, 2013

Police in eastern Pakistan say they have arrested around 150 people accused of burning dozens of Christian homes in anger over alleged blasphemy. #NewsTracker #Lahore #Muslim #Blasphemy laws #Pakistani Christians
Searching for alleged blasphemer, mob raids Christian colony in Lahore

Mar 09, 2013

Witnesses and local residents said policemen did nothing to stop the mob. Footage on television showed houses and cars on fire at Joseph Colony in Lahore. #NewsTracker #Lahore #Mob #Blasphemy laws #christian
'Blasphemy law is unworthy of secular democracy'

Dec 04, 2012

In 21st century India, in Mumbai, no less, an endeavour to expose a blatant fraud has cost Sanal Edamaruku, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association, his freedom. #Q&A #Freedom of Expression #Blasphemy laws #Sanal Edamaruku #Indian Rationalist Association #Catholic Secular Forum

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India has a long legal history of religious tolerance

Aug 26, 2012

There are not many cases reported of blasphemy in India. In my years as a sessions court reporter in the 1990s, I came across none, and most of the case studies in legal volumes refer to events 50 years or more ago. #DMK #Pakistan #PoliticsDecoder #AIADMK #J Jayalalitha #Blasphemy laws

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The New York Times
Islamists Press Blasphemy Cases in a New Egypt

2013-06-19 00:58:00

Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times Deir El Gabrawi, a poor Christian village. A school secretary in the village was sentenced to prison on blasphemy charges. DEIR EL GABRAWI, Egypt — Egypt’s prosecutors have been flooded with blasphemy complain #Egypt #New York Times Company #Muslim Brotherhood
The Express Tribune Pakistan
Ahmadi-owned magazine’s office under siege

2013-06-14 05:37:00

Saleemudin said they were trying to victimise the magazine staff for their religious beliefs. PHOTO: FILE The vigilante siege of an office on Turner Road, where a weekly magazine owned by an Ahmadi family is produced, has not been lifted two months after #Lahore #Pakistan
Economist
Vladimir Putin’s Russia: Battles over the river

2013-06-13 15:10:00

Putin, popular or not JUNE 12th is Russia Day, celebrating its emergence from the Soviet Union as a sovereign state. This year it was marked, in effect, by two countries facing each other across the Moscow river. On the south side, thousands of protester #Vladimir Putin #Soviet Union #Alexey Navalny

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