A recent escalation of violence in Pakistan, inspired by reports of blasphemy online, has highlighted the need for the country’s restrictive laws to be changed. In early May, a 10-year-old boy was killed in the town of Hub after he was caught up in a brawl related to a young Hindu man who had been accused of putting up blasphemous content online.

A month earlier, a 23-year-old university student was lynched to death in Mardan in the north of the county for publishing blasphemous content online. And in January, five Pakistani bloggers, who were critics of censorship, disappeared, though all of them were released three weeks later.