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2023 Victories for ACLJ's Affiliate in Pakistan

Jan. 032023 Victories for ACLJ's...

As we begin the new year, let us share with you some victories that our affiliate office, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), has been able to secure for persecuted Christians in Pakistan. We began our work about 14 years ago and soon received a case that has been going on since then. In Samuel Masih v. Niaz Ahmed Jutt , Jutt had fraudulently...More

Urging Pakistan High Court To Expedite Hearing Case of Christian...

Dec. 14Urging Pakistan High Court To...

Even on Death Row for Their Faith, Christians Form Bible Study

Dec. 06Even on Death Row for Their Faith,

Four Israeli Hostages Represented by the ACLJ Released, Including Mom...

Nov. 27Four Israeli Hostages Represented...

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Save Shahzad Masih From Death

Save Shahzad Masih From Death

A trial court in Pakistan sentenced a young Christian man to execution by hanging over a false allegation of blasphemy against him (a MINOR at the time of the alleged offense). Our Pakistani affiliate, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), is representing Shahzad Masih, the young Christian man, who was a 16-year-old...More

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Defend Dying Christians in Pakistan

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Pakistan has been listed as one of the most pernicious persecutors of Christians.

Pakistani Christians are tortured, raped, and burned alive. Some are falsely accused of blasphemy and sentenced to execution by hanging because of their faith.

Others face mob violence and governmental abuse and injustice.

This deadly barbarism – this monumental injustice – must end.

We’ve mobilized our offices on the ground in Pakistan, at the U.N., and on Capitol Hill to aggressively fight back. We are directly defending numerous Christians in Pakistani courts.

Save the lives of persecuted Christians before it’s too late. Take action with us.

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Victory in a Blasphemy Case in Pakistan

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Jun 14, 2013

The ECLJ is happy to inform you that our affiliate in Pakistan has successfully obtained a judgment of acquittal for our client, Pastor Karma Patras, who was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam. We have...

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2023 Victories for ACLJ's Affiliate in Pakistan

Shaheryar Gill  //

Jan 03, 2024

As we begin the new year, let us share with you some victories that our affiliate office, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), has been able to secure for persecuted Christians in Pakistan. We began our work...

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Urging Pakistan High Court To Expedite Hearing Case of Christian...

Shaheryar Gill  //

Dec 14, 2023

We have just filed a major petition for an expedited hearing in Pakistan at the Lahore High Court. Shahzad Masih, a young Christian man who was only 16 years old when he was arrested in 2017 over a false...

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Our Pakistan office successfully represented Pastor Karma Patras who was falsely accused of blasphemy after he gave a sermon at a memorial service preaching about the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. A Muslim attending the service mistook Pastor Patras’ words and accused him of blasphemy against Islam. Pastor Patras was arrested on October 15, 2012 under section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that punishes “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs” with up to ten years in prison. On February 21, 2013, our attorneys secured bail for Pastor Patras. In June 2013, our attorneys filed an application of acquittal for lack of evidence. The court accepted our application and acquitted Pastor Patras on June 14, 2013.

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