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Pakistan PM: blasphemy on social media must be punished

March 14, 2017 11:57:47 AM

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stated on Tuesday that blasphemy is an "unpardonable offense" and ordered the state to remove such content from social media. In a Twitter post through the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz [official...

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Denmark man indicted for burning Quran

February 24, 2017 02:31:08 PM

Prosecutors in North Jutland, Denmark , pressed blasphemy charges against a man on Wednesday for posting a video in which he burned a Koran. On Thursday the Danish Prosecution Service issued a formal indictment [press...

January 30, 2017 01:47:26 PM

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court acquitted 112 individuals suspected of taking part in the 2013 burning of 150 Christian homes and two churches in the Lahore's Josep Colony. Ghulam Murtaza Chaudhry, the lawyer defending the suspects, stated that...

November 16, 2016 07:02:45 PM

The Governor of Jakarta, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, an open Christian, has been named by police as a suspect in a blasphemy investigation . The announcement follows increasing protests calling for the governor's arrest as he has been...

October 21, 2016 09:03:03 AM

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye said Thursday that governments are "wielding the tools of censorship" and cautioned that "the freedom...

August 12, 2016 08:39:58 AM

Maldives President Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Thursday signed into law a controversial bill criminalizing defamation with fines and jail terms despite widespread criticism. The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye issued a warning ...

July 9, 2016 06:19:15 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed Abdelaal of McKinney School of Law and Alexandria School of Law discusses the significance of Egypt's new cybercrime draft law... On May 10, 2016, the Egyptian House of Representatives began to consider a new 33-article cybercrime...

February 29, 2016 04:20:28 PM

Pakistani authorities on Monday prepared for civil unrest after the execution of Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri in a high-security prison in Rawalpindi. Qadri is the killer of a former Pakistani governor of the Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, who campaigned...

February 10, 2016 12:57:24 PM

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Indonesian Parliament to reject proposed amendments to its law on the "eradication of terrorism" . HRW asserts that the proposed amendments are too vague...

January 11, 2016 10:21:07 AM

More than a dozen death row inmates in Zimbabwe on Sunday submitted a plea to the nation's constitutional court through a local NGO, arguing that their death sentences are unconstitutional. The inmates have spent between four and 20 years...

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Nuremberg race laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans." White circles represented on the chart are "pure Germans" while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish heritage. Review the Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

KKK bombs Alabama Church

On September 15, 1963, members of the Klu Klux Klan bombed a predominantly African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The blast at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four young girls and injured twenty other people. Despite an investigation by the FBI, no one was charged with responsibility for the crime until Robert Chambliss was convicted of murder in 1977. His accomplices, Thomas Blaton, Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, were not tried and convicted until about twenty-five years later. Learn more about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and the trials of Blanton and Cherry from NPR.

Nuremberg Laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans": white circles represent on the chart are "pure Germans", while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish blood.

Review the Laws for Protection of the German Race on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.