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• Soudan : Annonce d’une libération pour Meriam Ibrahim comdamnée à mort pour apostasie
  2 juin 2014, par siawi3

  Un responsable des Affaires étrangères du Soudan a annoncé qu’elle allait être libéré dans les « prochains jours ».

• Outspoken Maldives Blogger Who Challenged Radical Islamists Is Killed.
  24 April 2017, by siawi3

  “A brave voice, brutally silenced,” former President Mohamed Nasheed said. A liberal blogger who wrote satirical critiques of the Maldivian government and the spread of radical Islam died Sunday after being stabbed in the stairway of his apartment building. The blogger, Yameen Rasheed, 29, had complained repeatedly to the police about receiving death threats, he said in an interview with The New York Times this year, adding that the police often failed to return his calls or dropped his complaints without investigation.

• Pakistan : Après 8 ans d’emprisonnement pour blasphème, Asia Bibi est enfin acquittée
  3 février 2019, par siawi3

  De nombreux manifestants s’étaient farouchement opposés à sa libération. La justice a eu le dernier mot. Pour Saif-ul-Mulook, l’avocat d’Asia Bibi, la libération de sa cliente « ouvrira une nouvelle voie dans les poursuites pénales et les procès pour blasphème. »

• Bangladeshi blogger named on hitlist warned: ’You will be next’
  30 May 2015, by siawi3

  Ananya Azad among the writers concerned for their safety after murder of three men who criticised intolerance and religious fundamentalism; there is a hitlist containing the names of 84 atheist bloggers.

• ISIS beheads women for the first time
  1 July 2015, by siawi3

  Death for “sorcery”

• Pakistan: Lynching an alledged ’blasphemer’ on campus
  13 April 2017, by siawi3

  A 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University was killed and another seriously injured by a vigilante mob for allegedly “publishing blasphemous content online”. In recent months, Pakistan’s government has been vocal about the issue of blasphemy, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issuing an order last month for removal of blasphemous content online and saying anyone who posted such content should face “strict punishment under the law”.

• Pakistan : la Cour suprême acquitte la chrétienne Asia Bibi, condamnée à mort pour blasphème
  31 octobre 2018, par siawi3

  Lors de l’examen de son recours début octobre, les juges de la Cour suprême ont remis en question le bien-fondé de l’accusation. « Je ne vois aucune remarque désobligeante envers le Coran dans le rapport d’enquête », avait observé le juge Mian Saqib Nisar, tandis qu’un second juge relevait plusieurs points de non-respect des procédures.

• Third secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
  13 May 2015, by siawi3

  Imran Sarker, head of a Bangladeshi bloggers’ association, told AFP that Das was “an atheist and wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona,” a website which used to be moderated by Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US citizen who was himself hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.

• Pakistan: ‘Enlightenment martyrs’ - “Unsilencing Pakistan” and the ongoing “intellecticide”
  13 May 2015, by siawi3

  A new initiative : “Unsilencing Pakistan” aims to make an online record of all the journalists, activists, and thinkers in Pakistan who have been harassed, tortured, and/or executed. Those killed are ‘enlightenment martyrs’, part of an ongoing intellecticide.

• Bangladesh: Ananta Bijoy Das, Beloved by Humanity, Hacked to Death by Islamists.
  13 May 2015, by siawi3

  Attacks on bloggers critical of Islam have taken on a disturbing regularity in Bangladesh, with yet another writer hacked to death Tuesday. t’s one after another after another,” said Imran Sarker, who heads the Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh. “It’s the same scenario again and again’’. “He was a voice of social resistance. And now, he too has been silenced.”

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