Pakistan: New Government Cracks Down on Free Expression

By Human Rights Watch

(Bangkok) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, which took office in February 2024, is perpetuating a longstanding crackdown on free expression and civil society, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. Blasphemy-related violence against religious minorities, fostered in part by government persecution and discriminatory laws, intensified in 2024.For the 546-page world report, in its 35th edition, Human Rights Watch reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries. In much of the world, Executive Director Tirana Hassan writes in her introductory essay,…

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