Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Pakistan
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: June//2023
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Intizar Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In June 2023, authorities arrested Masih, along with about 20 other individuals, after he was accused of sharing materials in a WhatsApp group chat that were deemed blasphemous. Authorities confined him at Camp Jail in Lahore and charged him with blasphemy under sections 109, 295-A, 295-B, 295-C, and 298-A (PPC), and section 11 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act.