Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: To avoid judicial proceedings by Scientology, the MIVILUDES republishes its annual report Faced with a lawsuit, the French governmental anti-cult mission republishes its yearly report including a four-page right of answer by the Church of Scientology HRWF...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Misinformation on India’s Muslim population fuels Islamophobia Daily Sabah (02.05.2023) – Indian social media is rife with false demographic data claiming that the country is being turned into a Muslim-majority state, misinformation that influencers have...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Photo: SOVA’s Olga Sibireva. From Twitter. RUSSIA: Liquidating the SOVA Center: the official end of religious freedom in Russia By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest April 16 – 30 Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) is calling upon the European Union and the European Parliament to condemn the decision of a Russian court to liquidate SOVA Center, the last source of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: In March-April, 12 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 76 years in prison in all By Willy Fautré European Times (29.04.2023) – Not only Russian citizens disagreeing about Russia’s war on Ukraine or asking Putin to stop the war are sentenced to heavy prison...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest April Christians Christian convert whose son has leukaemia released from prison Article 18 (28.04.2023) – A 50-year-old Christian convert whose son has been battling leukaemia for five years was...