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UK/PAKISTAN: 8,500 and counting call for Maira’s asylum
More than 8,500 people have urged the UK government to grant asylum to a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian…
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PAKISTAN: Arzoo – Despair turns to hope
The arrest of a man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Catholic girl in Pakistan is being hailed…
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UK: Petition to save Maira tops 3,600 signatures
So far, more than 3,600 people have signed a Catholic charity’s petition calling on Prime Minister Boris…
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PAKISTAN: Seven wasted years
The head of a Catholic human rights’ organisation in Pakistan has hit out at the country’s justice…
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PAKISTAN: Maira’s struggle for justice takes a fresh turn
A 14-year-old Pakistani girl’s struggle to be free of the man who raped her – and blackmailed…
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PAKISTAN: Judges frightened to do justice in blasphemy cases
The threat from extremists means judges in Pakistan are too afraid to acquit Christians falsely accused of…
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PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi – ‘Please help kidnapped girls’
Asia Bibi – the first woman to be sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan – has…
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PAKISTAN: Maira receives death threats
A 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan has received death threats from the man she accuses of rape…
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PAKISTAN: ‘Police said, if we didn’t convert to Islam we’d face prison’
A man, who spent nearly five years in prison in Pakistan, has described how police tortured him…
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PAKISTAN: Escape from the house of hell
• 14-year-old Maira tells of being drugged, raped and blackmailed…
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PAKISTAN: Minorities denied housing in Muslim areas
Hard-liners in Pakistan are forcing Christians out of Muslim neighbourhoods and refusing to give them lodgings, according…