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Some 300 Christians marched on the legislature in Pakistan’s Punjab province at the weekend, joining global calls for the repeal of the country's draconian blasphemy laws days after a Christian lynching victim died in hospital.Judges quit in Hong Kong as police enforce Beijing’s law
“The government should stop patronizing extremist religious outfits. Minorities are now afraid to sleep fearing someone will drop blasphemous material in front of their house. The whole community is punished resultantly,” said Samson Salamat, chairman of Rawadari Tehreek, a group promoting peaceful coexistence among all segments of society, at the rally.
On June 3, UK-based global Christian group, Christian Solidarity Worldwide , issued a strongly worded statement demanding the end of Pakistan’s blasphemy law. Muslims make up the majority of Pakistan’s estimated 241 million people and Christians and Hindus make up about 1.6 percent each.Dozens of people including Muslims and non-Muslims have been arrested and jailed for blasphemy since the 1980s, but no one has been executed.
Between 1994 and 2023, a total of 95 persons accused of committing blasphemy were killed in mob attacks, the group said. Joseph Jansen, advocacy officer at the European Union and the United Nations representing the Jubilee Campaign Netherlands, highlighted the dangerous correlation between blasphemy laws and the resulting mob violence.
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