Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to hang over a song he shared on WhatsApp. Six and a half years on, Nigeria's Supreme Court still has not managed to fit his appeal into its schedule.
Prosecutors in Pakistan have been told to show that the digital evidence used to convict Junaid Hafeez is both admissible and authentic. The former lecturer has been on death row for blasphemy since 2019, and his appeal has been waiting since 2020.
In Faridpur, thieves made off with a Kali idol and its gold while the temple's cameras were out of order. In Kolkata, Indian rights groups counted more than a hundred minority members killed in Bangladesh since early 2025 and four of their defenders jailed or hounded. Dhaka has changed governments. Its Hindus are still waiting for the change.
In September alone, one Ahmadi was shot dead and two others were wounded in Pakistan's Punjab province, with no arrests reported. Meanwhile, the country's Federal Constitutional Court found the time to uphold a ban on the community's sacred texts. Priorities.
Sivarasa Anojan, a Tamil migrant worker from Sri Lanka, now faces the death penalty after a Saudi appeals court replaced his five-year prison term for blasphemy tied to a Facebook comment. A Sri Lankan MP is challenging the government's handling of the appeal.
Two Christians in Pakistan now face charges under the country's blasphemy laws, among them Section 295-C, which is punishable by death. One man is accused of insulting Muhammad in speech, the other of sharing a video online.
In Banda Aceh, a man and a woman convicted of adultery were caned 100 times each before a crowd that included children. It is the province's latest reminder that holding hands can be a punishable offence.
An Iraqi court has jailed a butcher for ten years for passing off wild boar as beef in Najaf, one of Shia Islam's holiest cities. That is more than some officials convicted of illicit enrichment recently got. Was he punished for cheating his customers, or for the animal itself? The court isn't saying.
Samuel Arif, a 26-year-old Christian, is on judicial remand in Lahore on blasphemy charges after residents beat him and police took him into custody. His family says a personal feud, not any insult to religion, lies behind the accusation.
In March 2024, supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada pledged to flog and stone women in public. Rights groups now count 2,745 people subjected to corporal punishment between February 2022 and April 2026, and the U.N. says 2025 broke every previous record.
Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have asked for the execution of hadith scholar Abdul Aziz al-Tarifi, jailed since 2016 and now held in solitary confinement, according to rights group ALQST.
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