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Killing in the Name of God: State-sanctioned Violations of Religious Freedom | Eleos Justice - Monash University (Oct 2021)

7 October 2021

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by Alexander, C., Sato, M., Hosen, N., and McLaren, J. (with Ali, M. and Mahmodi, M.)

As of 2020, blasphemy was formally criminalised in some 84 countries. As many as 21 countries criminalised apostasy as of 2019. The legal penalties for such offences range from fines to imprisonment to corporal punishment