Freedom of Religion and Belief
ARGENTINA: A yoga school in the eye of a media cyclone A case of abuse of power by prosecutors and the police Spanish version By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (08.06.2023) – Since last summer, the Buenos Aires Yoga School...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
GEORGIA: Annual Report of the Tolerance and Discrimination Institute on Freedom of Religion or Belief TDI (06.07.2023) – The Tolerance and Discrimination Institute (TDI) has recently published its annual report about Freedom of Religion or Belief in Georgia with the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
SPAIN: Spain grants historic tax exemption to Jehovah’s Witnesses HRWF salutes Spain’s political will to treat this religious organization and their members in the same way as other faith communities in the realm of taxation JW with HRWF (25.05.2023) – The...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BANGLADESH: 2,500 booked for clashes over ‘blasphemy’ The violence was triggered by an alleged blasphemous post on Facebook insulting Prophet Muhammad By Emran Hossain UCA NEWS (05.06.2023) – Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka charged...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
YEMEN: USCIRF calls for immediate release of 17 Baha’is forcibly disappeared by the Houthis USCIRF (02.06.2023) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns last week’s Houthi attack on a peaceful gathering of Yemeni Baha’is in Sana’a....
Freedom of Religion and Belief
TURKEY: Physical and sexual violence by police against 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers The European Times (05.06.2023) – On 24 May, over 100 members of the Ahmadi Religion – women, children and elderly people – from eight Muslim-majority countries, where they are...