by admin_HRWF | Dec 10, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Abdughapar Abdurusul’s wife is believed to have died in detention and his eldest son is missing. Radio Free Asia (21.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2PuDuwO – Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 6, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Human Rights Activist News Agency (17.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Ed0m31 – Thirteen Gobanadi Dervishes walked free from Great Tehran Penitentiary Tuesday, November 13th after finishing their prison terms. The group were among a larger cohort arrested and...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 6, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Since the launch of a nation-wide supervision program to inspect the implementation of Xi Jinping’s policies on religion in China’s provinces and municipalities, believers across the country are facing even more intense crackdown on their religious liberties. By...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 6, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Yonat Shimron Religion News Service (03.12.2018) – https://bit.ly/2Ej7Pxe – Hanukkah is meant to mark the victory of the Jewish people over religious oppression. But in the days and weeks leading up to Hanukkah, which began Sunday (Dec. 2), many...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 5, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
On 28 November, the St Petersburg City Court postponed to 6 December an appeal filed against Judge Evgeny Isakov in St Petersburg by the defense lawyer of the leader of the Scientology Church, Ivan Matsitsky, who in September was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 4, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
An interim report (January – June 2018) by Tell MAMA Executive summary Tell MAMA (29.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2zFH4zc – Between January to June 2018, Tell MAMA recorded a total of 685 reports. Of these reports, 608 were verified as being anti-Muslim in...
