“The State party should decriminalize defamation, and ensure that imprisonment is never a punishment for defamation and that criminal laws are not improperly enforced journalists and dissenting voices.”
Source/Credit: Dunyya News
By Web Desk | August 2,2017
United Nations (UN) has taken note of human rights violations and controversial blasphemy laws after a think tank registered with Irish government had lodged a plea with the international body.
The United Nations has made the following observations:
The State party should:
(a) Repeal all blasphemy laws or amend them in compliance with the strict requirements of the Covenant, including as set forth in general comment No. 34, para. 48;
(b) Ensure that all those who incite or engage in violence against others based on allegations of blasphemy as well as those who falsely accuse others of blasphemy are brought to justice and duly punished;
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