Junaid Hafeez Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/junaid-hafeez/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:27:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Junaid Hafeez Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/junaid-hafeez/ 32 32 59910430 Pakistan Academic Still Incarcerated for Blasphemy for the Past Five Years https://concernedscientists.org/2019/10/pakistan-academic-still-incarcerated-for-blasphemy-for-the-past-five-years/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:27:05 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7615 Junaid Hafeez has been confined in solitary confinement for the past 5 years on a charge of blasphemy for posting he made on Facebook. He is in danger while confined – so much so that his first attorney was murdered for defending him, threatened by the prosecutor of the case. The case has been continued […]

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]]> 7615 Lecturer and Fulbright Scholar in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy, Lawyer Murdered https://concernedscientists.org/2016/06/lecturer-and-fulbright-scholar-in-pakistan-charged-with-blasphemy-lawyer-murdered/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:56:04 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=5235 Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer of English Literature at Bahauddin Zakariya University, respected writer and scholar, has been jailed for the past three years and charged with blasphemy. The charge carries the possibility of a death sentence. During the trial his attorney was threatened by the prosecutor in open court; and was actually murdered. Hafeez’ new […]

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