ISLAMABAD, March 9 (Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death sentence on Monday for the killer of the governor of Pakistan's largest province after he had called for reform of a law against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death after finding him guilty of blasphemy for insulting ...

Pakistan's Supreme Court said it had reached a judgement Monday after hearing the final appeal of a Christian mother on death row for blasphemy, but that it will announce its ruling later in the ...

The four men were sentenced in Rawalpindi, the garrison city that neighbors the national capital, Islamabad. Pakistan has witnessed a sharp increase in the prosecution of "online blasphemy" cases, ...

(Jakarta) – The expected release of the former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama from a Jakarta prison on January 24, 2019 underscores Indonesia’s dangerous and discriminatory blasphemy law, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization has criticized the blasphemy conviction and imprisonment of a Buddhist woman who complained that the call to prayer from her ...

CNN’s Stephanie Busari speaks with Omar Farouq, the Nigerian teen who was freed after his 10-year prison sentence for blasphemy was overturned. Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in ...

Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, northern Nigeria, was once seen “as an oasis of knowledge in a vast land of aridity... a symbol of enlightenment and civility”. Not any more, said Dare ...

A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death after finding him guilty of blasphemy for insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in text messages he sent to a Muslim co-worker in 2013, a defense ...