GENEVA (AP) - A senior Pakistan official said Wednesday that the U.N. Human Rights Council was right to protect religions from criticism, even if that means curtailing freedom of the press.
Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, director of human rights at Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, said countries whose laws permit "defamations of religions and sacred personalities, particularly in Islam, are basically strengthening the hands of those who want to divide humanity."
He was responding to a resolution at a world newspapers' meeting on Tuesday that urged the rights council to "defend freedom of expression and not to support the censorship of opinion at the request of autocracies."
The 47-nation Human Rights Council resolved in March to have its expert on free speech investigate individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam. Pakistan sponsored the resolution on behalf of Muslim countries.
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