Sentence examples for offences of blasphemy from inspiring English sources

Abolishes the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

The government has tabled an amendment to its criminal justice and immigration bill scrapping the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel which is expected to be debated by the House of Lords in the next few days.

It's certainly one in the eye for parliament, which abolished the offence of blasphemy in 2008 – but perhaps those outplayed politicians can now retaliate by arbitrarily changing the scoring system for the uneven bars.

According to the Iranian opposition website Kaleme, Mrs Nobahkt was among eight people jailed for a total of 123 years for a variety of offences including blasphemy, propaganda against the ruling system, spreading lies and insulting the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Hardline Islamic groups, though, insist the Ahmadiyah faith disputes that Muhammad was the last prophet, and is therefore nothing short of blasphemy - an offence against Islam and a violation of Indonesian law.

But after the legal scope of blasphemy was expanded to include offences such as insulting the Prophet Mohamed – for which the death penalty was introduced under the military ruler Zia-ul-Haq – cases surged.

The two archbishops, Dr Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu, make it clear that they will not oppose the abolition of blasphemy but say the government needs to be clear as to precisely why the offence is being scrapped.

But they were accused of blasphemy.

Since this was an accusation of blasphemy, to repeat the words would be to perpetuate blasphemy.

Christians also frequently find themselves accused of blasphemy under Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws.

Hate-speech crimes, and offences under blasphemy, sexual equality, defamation or racial abuse laws vary around the world.