Pakistan: Quash Longstanding Blasphemy Case

By Human Rights Watch

(New York) – Pakistani authorities should quash the unjust conviction of Junaid Hafeez, who was sentenced to death in 2013 under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws, Human Rights Watch said today. Hafeez’s 13 years in prison raise grave concerns about the lack of due process and the broader misuse of the country’s blasphemy laws.Police in Punjab province arrested Hafeez, then an academic in his twenties, on March 13, 2013, for blasphemy based on comments he allegedly posted on Facebook. In December 2019, a court in Multan sentenced Hafeez to death following a repeatedly delayed trial…

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