FECRIS is the European Federation of Centers for Research and Information on Sects and Cults, an umbrella organization funded by the French government, that gathers and coordinates “anti-cult” organizations throughout Europe and beyond. It...
Jehovah's Witness Shamil Khakimov, 72, was released from prison in Tajikistan after serving the full term of his four-year sentence. He had been imprisoned on spurious charges of “inciting religious hatred.”
A Christian hybrid school provider, based in Laichingen, Germany, is challenging the German state’s restrictive educational system. After the initial application in 2014, the Association for Decentralized Learning was denied approval to offer primary and secondary education by German authorities, despite fulfilling all state-mandated criteria and curricula
FECRIS - Yet once more, the specialized human rights magazine BitterWinter.org, founded by expert Massimo Introvigne, broke the news this morning with the latest "fabrication" of FECRIS. We encourage readers to access the full...
The right to religious freedom is recognised and implemented by the vast majority of countries that value the UDHR. But the extent to which a liberal society should support religious diversity remains a subject...
Not only Russian citizens disagreeing about Russia’s war on Ukraine or asking Putin to stop the war are sentenced to heavy prison terms. Jehovah’s Witnesses whose organization was banned by the Supreme Court in...
As reported by SOVA Center, the remaining most active human rights NGO in Russia, the Russian oppressive fist is now falling on them.
We reproduce here the statement of SOVA:
On April 27, 2023 Judge Vyacheslav Polyga of the Moscow City Court considered the request filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice to liquidate the...
Near-unanimous resolution urges Nigeria to “repeal the blasphemy laws at federal and state level”
Supreme Court of Nigeria to hear case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, sentenced to death for blasphemy on Whatsapp
Brussels (20 April 2023) – ADF...
From April 5 to 11, Bitter Winter, its parent organization CESNUR, and the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers organized a fact-finding tour of Taiwan, where they had decided to organize the 2023 edition...
By Sumera Shafique
Every year, human rights estimate that several hundred minor girls are forcibly married in Pakistan. While this is an issue that affects minor girls from all communities, girls from religious minorities are...
In these painful moments, the NGO CAP-LC (Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience) expresses its sorrow, support and solidarity to the Christian congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg-Winterhude.
We are...
Tokyo: Japan Tibet Support Group members passed a five-point resolution today, in which, among other things, the members warned China not to interfere in Tibetan religious matters, including the selection of high Tibetan Lamas,...
By — Shyamal Sinha
Tibetan activists from Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT) and Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) staged a protest at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi against...
An interview with Prof. Dr. Archil Metreveli, Head of the Institute for Religious Freedom of the University of Georgia
Jan-Leonid Bornstein: We have heard from you about a new legislative initiative of the Government of Georgia concerning submitting...
In a press release from the worldwide organization UNITED SIKHS, it stated that they are “disheartened to learn that a 15-year-old Sikh soccer player was asked by the referee to remove his turban during a football...
The 5th World Congress on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue “A Path to Peace” was held on 8 and 9 November at CEMA University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, under the slogan “Thinking about...
Miviludes had some troubles due to its long-term association with anti-Ukrainian Russian extremists, and recently Miviludes has seen its operational chief resigning,
Four Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison for up to seven years for supposedly organizing and financing extremist activities while they were in fact merely exercising their right to freedom of religion and assembly.
During Football World Cup in Qatar, voices of non-Muslims have been heard and listened to at the European Parliament at a conference “Qatar: Addressing the limitations of religious freedom for Bahá’ís and Christians.”