HRWF Prisoners Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
In Prison for Their Faith 2020
Ahmadis – Baha’is – Buddhists – Catholics – Church of Almighty God – Falun Gong – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Orthodox – Protestants – Said Nursi – Sufis – Sunnis – Tabligh Jamaat
HRWF VIDEOS
REPORT: Freedom of Religion or Belief
This HRWF report exposes the practice of kidnapping, confinement and forced de-conversion that is currently ongoing in South Korea. It discusses the history, cultural context and drivers of this gross human rights violation, highlights 10 individual cases and provides recommendations.
REPORT: Women's Rights & Religion
This HRWF report explores the ways in which religious texts and practices as well as cultural influences and patriarchal systems influence the infringement of women's rights. It aspires to highlight the powerful potential that religion and religious leaders have to help guarantee these rights around the world.
LATEST NEWS
Uzbekistan’s new religion law promises limited change
Critics complain the draft bill preserves many restrictions. Eurasianet (16.09.2020) - https://bit.ly/2ZX6Coz - Lawmakers in Uzbekistan have approved the first reading of legislation that would, among other things, end a ban on the wearing of religious clothing...
Persecution forces Laotian Christians to practice faith in secret
Christians face threats from other villagers as well as official intimidation in the communist nation. By Vientiane UCA News (17.09.2020) - https://bit.ly/342mrfd - Christians in Laos continue to face various forms of harassment and discrimination, which...
UKRAINE: Supreme Court criticizes judicial corruption
- By Oleg Sukhov. Pavlo Vovk, head of the Kyiv Administrative District Court, has become the epitome of corruption for society. He denies the accusations. The Supreme Court on Sept. 18 made a rare statement for Ukraine’s judiciary – one criticizing...
Ukrainian MPs endanger independence of key anti-corruption body
- With 239 votes, Ukrainian MPs appointed scandalous and much-criticized members to the commission that will select the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, a key anti-corruption institution. Article by: Olena Makarenko Euromaidan Press...
UKRAINE: Fight against corruption: a suspicious silence and inaction of the Prosecutor General
HRWF comment: Another bribe scandal in the parliament sheds light on the mechanisms of corruption interconnecting politics, business and judiciary, the cornerstone of the whole system. Prosecutor general blocks bribery charges against Zelensky lawmaker By Oleg Sukhov...