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Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), a political party that has ruled the country off and on in the past three decades, has released an audio-video montage claiming that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) judge, who convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for owning unexplained properties in London, delivered his decision under coercion. The video [...]

In a referendum held on Friday, October 26, 2018, the people of Ireland voted to amend the Irish Constitution to remove the word blasphemy from Article 40.6.1, which declared that “he publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.” This constitutional amendment enables [...]

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, and Nawaz’s husband, appealed to the Islamabad High Court  on Monday, challenging their convictions handed down by a Pakistani anticorruption court earlier this month. Sharif, Nawaz and her husband were arrested on Friday upon arriving in Pakistan to face their sentences. Sharif was sentenced  to [...]

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, indicted 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. UN High Commissioner for...

The Lahore High Court on Thursday delayed the execution of former police officer Khizar Hayat until the Pakistan Supreme Court can rule on the case of another mentally ill convict. Hayat's execution is now scheduled for...

Pakistani lawmakers voted unanimously Thursday to strengthen the penalties for those convicted of murder in connection to honor killings. The new law provides for mandatory life imprisonment , even if the family of the victim forgave the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon Pakistani authorities Monday to stop the execution of Imdad Ali, a mentally disabled man, which is scheduled for Tuesday. HRW expressed its belief that "executing people with mental health conditions...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Mumtaz Qadri, a former police guard respected within Pakistan for killing politician Salmaan Taseer over his support for a woman convicted of blasphemy. Taseer was...

A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended the execution of a civilian man sentenced to death by a military court after a legal challenge, the first of such challenges since the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed these hearings. The...

A judge in Pakistan's Lahore District and Sessions court on Friday sentenced Liaquat Ali to death for blasphemy. Ali was arrested in 2012 on accusations of blasphemy by a Mughalpura area prayer leader. Traditionally, Pakistan's blasphemy laws...