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Why Is It So Easy To Arrest a Person For Blasphemy In Pakistan?

By Tariq Ahmed
In Human Rights, Islam, Op-eds, United States
9 Min read
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Originally published in Foreign Policy On May 13, 2014, police in the province of Punjab announced that they had registered a complaint of blasphemy against sixty-eight lawyers who had been involved in a protest against a police officer. The protest started after a senior officer allegedly detained and beat one of the lawyer’s colleagues. During the protests, the lawyers had called out the...

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Shock and surprise over Rice arrest

By Sinaan Younus
In Human Rights, Letters
1 Min read
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Originally published in The Baltimore Sun I was shocked, surprised and stunned to read of Ravens running back Ray Rice‘s arrest on domestic violence charges (“Ravens’ Rice knocked fiancee unconscious, police say,” Feb. 20). Mr. Rice was the last person I expected to commit such an act, if only because he champions the Ray of Hope anti-bullying campaign. By visiting...

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