The Civil Society Organizations comprising human rights activists, professional groups and political parties organized a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on May 18, 2014 against the murder of Rashid Rehman, a lawyer and a human rights activist. He was murdered on May 7, 2014 in Multan for defending a lecturer accused of blasphemy. The speakers at the rally said that intolerance and extremism were peaking and the voice of justice and dissent was being clamped. Rehman murderers are yet to be caught who had given death threat to him in the presence of the judge.