An Iranian blogger, translator, literary editor, and social activist was arrested by Iranian authorities on June 4th and was accused of spying for Israel for posting a dot in response to a Tweet made last month by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
A High Court in India rejected a plea for protection filed by a Hindu-Muslim couple, citing that their marriage is invalid as per Muslim Personal Law, which governs all Muslims in India in several aspects, such as marriage and divorce.
Hindu-Muslim Marriage Invalid Under Muslim Personal Law : MP High Court Refuses Protection Plea Of Inter-Faith Couple pic.twitter.com/XPwzTqBOwP
Local authorities detained a man in Pakistan in a mental hospital after he applied to set up the first gay club in the conservative, Muslim-majority nation.
A man who tried to open Pakistan's first gay club was admitted to a mental hospital by Pakistani authorities. pic.twitter.com/NIYrANK262
A Christian father and son were attacked by hundreds of enraged Muslims in eastern Pakistan over allegations that the son desecrated pages of the Quran, leaving their house as well as their shoemaking factory ransacked and burned.
The angry Muslim mob went on a rampage on May 25th when locals claimed they saw burnt pages of the Quran outside the two Christian men’s house and accused the son of being behind it. The mob then set their house and shoemaking factory on fire and attacked the son.
Research made by an Israeli think tank revealed that textbooks from Saudi Arabia showed significant moderation of anti-Israel and antisemitic material, while references to Palestine were removed from most maps and lessons where they previously appeared, pointing to the possibility of the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom laying the groundwork for normalizing ties with the Jewish state.
Supporters of the Iranian regime violently attacked Iranian dissidents on May 24th after a group of dissidents protested outside a vigil in London for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran near the country’s border with Azerbaijan along with his foreign minister and several other Iranian officials on May 19th.
More than a year after he posted a video where he briefly narrated how the Egyptian government mistreated him and even prevented him from leaving the country by taking away his passport, Egyptian ex-Muslim and atheist Sherif Gaber faces a new challenge after an Egyptian court sentenced him to another five years in prison for criticizing Islam.
Over 260 people were arrested by Iranian authorities last weekend at an underground music festival, with the Iranian police calling the event a “Satanist gathering.”
An openly lesbian Lebanese stand-up comic and LGBTQIA+ rights activist is facing criminal charges from Lebanon’s Islamic religious authorities on May 9th after her sketch about Muslim Friday prayers went viral and sparked controversy online.
