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.
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Pakistan High Court Acquits Professor Held Four Years on Blasphemy Charge -
The Rushdie Affair 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.