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Daily Sun: Pakistan Threatens to Prosecute Blasphemy Committed Abroad

January 22, 2021

O’Melveny partner Brett Williamson is defending pro bono client TrueIslam.com, the official website of the American Ahmadiyya Muslim community, against Pakistani authorities’ demands that the website be taken down or face jail penalties up to ten years based on claims that it violates Pakistani blasphemy law, Daily Sun reported.

Williamson called the actions “a malicious attempt to chill free speech and expression.”

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