Religious minorities continue to face violence in Pakistan: UN rights chief
Bachelet, the UN Prime Commissioner for Human Rights, briefing the continuing 43rd Consultation of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on human rights trends world wide, discussed the case of Junaid Hafeez, a school lecturer in Pakistan, who has been sentenced to dying in December for blasphemy.
Religious minorities in Pakistan continue to face violence, repeated assaults on their puts of worship, and discrimination in regulation and apply: UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet
Religious minorities in Pakistan continue to face violence and repeated assaults on their puts of worship and govt’s failure to amend the blasphemy regulation provisions led to violence towards them, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet mentioned on Thursday.
Bachelet, the UN Prime Commissioner for Human Rights, briefing the continuing 43rd Consultation of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on human rights trends world wide, discussed the case of Junaid Hafeez, a school lecturer in Pakistan, who has been sentenced to dying in December for blasphemy.
“Religious minorities in Pakistan continue to face violence, repeated assaults on their puts of worship, and discrimination in regulation and apply,” Bachelet mentioned.
“The [Pakistan] govt, in spite of suggestions from world human rights mechanisms, has no longer amended or repealed blasphemy regulation provisions that have led to violence towards non secular minorities, in addition to to arbitrary arrests and prosecution,” the previous Chilean president mentioned in a remark on Pakistan’s debatable blasphemy regulation.
“The dying penalty stays obligatory for blasphemy, and in December, the Multan Court docket sentenced Junaid Hafeez to dying on a blasphemy rate, in contravention of world human rights regulation,” she mentioned.
Blasphemy is a massively delicate factor in Pakistan, with even unproven allegations steadily prompting mob violence. Somebody convicted, and even simply accused, of insulting Islam, dangers a violent and bloody dying by the hands of vigilantes.
Rights teams have mentioned the blasphemy regulations are robotically abused to search vengeance and settle private rankings.
On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Minister of Human Rights Shireen Mazari whilst addressing the UNHRC consultation mentioned the federal government was once dedicated to uphold and offer protection to the rights of youngsters, girls and minorities in the course of the enactment of innovative legislations.
