Migrants: Pakistan

(asked on 23rd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect members of the Pakistani diaspora in the UK who have been accused of blasphemy from potential vigilantism.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 31st March 2022

All forms of hate crime are completely unacceptable, and we have a robust legislative framework to respond to it. We are clear that the cowards who commit these hateful attacks should feel the full force of the law.

The Government will always protect people’s legitimate rights – for example, to free speech and to practise their religion within the law – but we cannot and will not shy away from challenging cultures and practices that are harmful to individuals, restrict their rights or hold them back from making the most of the opportunities of living in modern Britain.

We encourage all victims of crime to report these to the police so they can be properly investigated, and perpetrators can be brought to justice.

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