Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest April 16-30 27.04.2024 – A case on insulting the feelings of believers has been initiated in Ulyanovsk Sova – On April 26, 2024, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: New law against “cultic abuses” to be checked by the Constitutional Council The European Times (29.04.2024) – On 15 April, over sixty members of the National Assembly and over sixty senators referred the newly adopted law “to reinforce the fight against...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest April 15-29 Buddhists 23.04.2024 – Massive Chinese cyber espionage of Tibetan diaspora revealed Bitter Winter – We all knew that Chinese intelligence agencies keep the Tibetan and Uyghur...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest April Christians ‘Former prisoner charged again with ‘propaganda against the state’ Article 18 – (24.04.2024) – A house-church member who served four months in prison in 2019 for “propaganda against the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
SWEDEN: Financing of religion: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the crosshairs By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (04.29.2024) – The government of Sweden is drafting new legislation revising the Act on State Grants to Religious Communities....
Freedom of Religion and Belief
SWEDEN: Persecution of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (26.04.2024) – During the years spanning 2019 to 2022, a group of 170 believers in the religious minority, the Ahmadi Religion of Peace...