Blasphemy

Articles

• Bangladesh: Blasphemy, Genocide and Violence Against Women: the case of Bangladesh
  22 February 2015, by siawi3

  What is the link between the complete impunity for the deliberate targeting of women at all levels of Pakistani society, and the trials of alleged war criminals going on today in Bangladesh? The link is the forgotten genocide committed in Bangladesh in 1971. Appeals to violence in the name of religion were a central feature of this conflict as was the systematic targeting and mass rape of women.

• Stop executing “apostates” and “blasphemers” and release them now!
  24 February 2015, by siawi3

  “Apostates” and “blasphemers” have not committed any crime and should be immediately released. The real crime is imprisoning and executing people for their beliefs and expression. Clearly, there is no place in the 21^st century for such medieval laws. Apostasy and blasphemy laws must end. And they must end now. Apostasy and blasphemy are punishable with death in Saudi Arabia and also in a number of other countries, including Iran and Mauritania.

• Libérez Mohamed Cheikh condamné à mort en Mauritanie
  24 février 2015, par siawi3

  Nous, jeunes africains, défenseurs des libertés et de la dignité humaine, Avec le soutien des défensseurs de la liberté et des droits humains, avons appris avec affliction la condamnation à la peine de mort de Mohamed Cheikh ould Mohamed Mkhaïtir, accusé d’apostasie malgré ses dénégations.

• Pakistan: Taliban release the abducted son of Salmaan Taseer - who was assassinated for speaking up against the blasphemy law
  12 March 2016, by siawi3

  The return of Salmaan Taseer’s abducted son gives Pakistan another ray of hope
  The young businessman is recovered after five years in captivity, the week after his father’s assassin was executed.

• 14 March 2012: International Day of Action to Defend Blasphemers and Apostates
  5 March 2012, by siawi3

  Countless individuals face threats, imprisonment, and execution because of their criticism of religion and religious authorities. Blasphemy and Apostasy laws as well as uncodified rules imposed by both state and non-state actors aim primarily to restrict thought and expression and limit the rights of Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
  On 14 March 2012, we, the undersigned, are calling for simultaneous events and actions in defense of the critics of religion in order to highlight medieval laws and exert pressure to save the lives of the women and men facing execution, imprisonment or threats.

• A Brunei, la législation inspirée de la charia doit entrer en vigueur mercredi
  3 avril 2019, par siawi3

  Les nouvelles lois font de Brunei le premier pays d’Asie du Sud-Est à appliquer un code pénal suivant la charia à un niveau national, comme le fait l’Arabie saoudite. Ce mercredi 3 avril, entre en vigueur une nouvelle législation inspirée de la charia, qui rend l’adultère ainsi que les rapports sexuels entre hommes passibles de la lapidation et les rapports sexuels entre femmes de dix ans de prison. Le nouveau code prévoit aussi l’amputation d’une main ou d’un pied pour les voleurs. Le viol est passible de la peine de mort, tout comme l’insulte au prophète Mahomet.

• Pakistan: Lynching on pretext of blasphemy
  8 June 2017, by siawi3

  A report compiled by a 13-member joint investigation team (JIT) investigating the lynching of Mashal Khan stated that a group in the university incited a mob against the Mardan university student on pretext of blasphemy. It added that no proof was found that Khan had committed blasphemy.

• “I learnt to question religious and political orthodoxy and to be a person of ideas", Salman Rushdie
  5 August 2016, by siawi3

  The question is, what are the limits of tolerance? I’ve always thought the only limit to place on liberty is to deny it to the people, whom if they had the power, would deny it to you. The limit to freedom would be to not give freedom to people who would end the process of freedom. there is this argument that was put forward, initially, by religious groups — which is that it was a bad thing to offend people. That if your religious sensibilities were offended, that was not your problem but it was the problem of the person by whom you were offended. The point is, in an open society you must be able to have that argument. You must be able to attack the opinion while remaining respectful of the individual’s concerned. That is what I have always thought. I am not respectful of religion, and I think religion is garbage. All of them. And I retain the right to say so. But I don’t think you should discriminate against human beings because they hold beliefs that are not yours.

• Kuwait: Blasphemy charges against human rights defender Shaikha Binjasim
  21 April 2016, by siawi3

  Ms Shaikha Binjasim is a Kuwaiti human rights defender, writer and professor of philosophy at Kuwait University. She has been advocating on social media for freedom of conscience and freedom of speech in Kuwait.

• Maldives : Criminal Defamation now decriminalised
  30 November 2009, by siawi2
  (Source: ARTICLE 19, 25 November 2009)
  The Maldives parliament has passed an amendment to the Penal Code abolishing five articles providing for criminal defamation. ARTICLE 19 welcomes these developments and calls on the authorities to ensure  (...)

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