Iran is a constitutional, Islamic theocracy. Its official religion is the doctrine of the Twelver Jaafari School. Iran's law against blasphemy derives...

A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or...

Laws prohibiting blasphemy and blasphemous libel in the United Kingdom date back to the medieval times as common law and in some special cases as enacted...

Ireland in 2020. Scotland repealed its blasphemy laws in 2021. Many other countries have abolished blasphemy laws including Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland...

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Adelabad Prison in Shiraz to serve his sentence. Blasphemy law in Iran is used as a weapon against Christians and Christianity within Iran's borders. Government-sanctioned...

According to human rights groups, blasphemy laws in Pakistan are often exploited, even against Muslims, to settle personal rivalries or to persecute minorities...

literature in Persian (also known as Farsi) is prohibited. Iran portal Blasphemy law in Iran Internet censorship in Iran 2019 Internet blackout in Iran National...

individuals who have been "targeted and prosecuted" by the Iranian state for apostasy (and blasphemy/"Swearing at the Prophet") are "diverse" and include "Muslim-born...

Blasphemy Day, also known as International Blasphemy Day or International Blasphemy Rights Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and...

punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage...

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government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion; apostasy; blasphemy; extortion; counterfeiting; smuggling; recidivist consumption of alcohol;...

against God is blasphemy. Angered, Bakhtiar made a speech of his own. Reaffirming himself as the legitimate leader, he declared that: Iran has one government...

military victory in Mecca). Ayatollah Khomeini urged Iranians on, declaring: It is our belief that Saddam wishes to return Islam to blasphemy and polytheism...

of blasphemy laws in prosecuting members of religious minorities, political opponents, and settling personal scores. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws have...

apostasy and blasphemy. Namazie was born in Tehran to Hushang and Mary Namazie, but left with her family in 1980 after the 1979 revolution in Iran. She has...

statutory law that criminalizes apostasy in Pakistan." On the other hand, the Pakistani government can impose the death penalty for blasphemy. Pakistani...

S. (1981), Punishment in Islamic Law, American Trust Pub; pp. 49–68 Forte, D. F. (1994). Apostasy and Blasphemy in Pakistan. Conn. J. Int'l L., 10, 27...

damage are not hudud crimes in Islamic criminal jurisprudence, and are subsumed under other categories of Islamic penal law in Iran which are: Qisas (meaning...

Government of Iran (Persian: دولت موقت ايران, romanized: Dowlat-e Movaqat-e Irân) was the first government established in Iran after the Iranian Revolution...

former leader Pervez Musharraf, who died in February 2023. 16 January – 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan: Iran launches a missile attack within Balochistan...

Franz Kafka. Reaction was hot, and some conservative papers called Gods a blasphemy. On the night of August 22, 1995, men arrived at the book publisher's...

Iran portal Law portal Politics portal 1989 Iranian constitutional referendum Blasphemy laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran December 1979 Iranian constitutional...

Amends Adultery Law For Women". CBS News. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2024. Kuru, Ahmet T. (6 February 2023). "The politics of blasphemy: Why Pakistan...

between intolerance and blasphemy laws is closest when the laws apply to only one religion. In Pakistan blasphemy directed against either the tenets...

explicit renunciation of one's religion, principles or cause; and from blasphemy, which is an impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things...

February 1989). "A 'Satanic' Fury: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders the murder of a novelist in Britain as the 'blasphemy' in a controversial new book convulses...

faith by converting to another religion or abandoning religion, but also blasphemy or heresy by those who consider themselves Muslims, through any action...