blasphemy

The Lahore High Court has overturned a 2022 conviction of a university professor accused of blasphemous statements in a lecture, citing insufficient evidence and procedural irregularities in the original trial.

By Jon Ajinga 2 min read 333 words

In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses — not a trial in any conventional sense, but perhaps the defining event in late 20th-century conflicts between free expression and religious authority.

By The Freethinking Times 6 min read 1,013 words