Freedom of Religion and Belief
INDIA: Open letter to Josep Borrell, EU Vice-President, on his visit to India Open letter on human rights and religious freedom to High Representative/Vice-President of the European Union Josep Borrell on his visit to India. Human Rights Without Frontiers signed it...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: Pastor Nadarkhani released as part of national amnesty CSW (02.28.2023) – Iranian church leader Yousef Nadarkhani was released on 26 February as part of a national amnesty issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to commemorate the anniversary of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
NORWAY: Why the European Court of Human Rights rejected a complaint from a disfellowshipped former Jehovah’s Witness rejected The case of a disfellowshipped woman who demanded that courts compel the Jehovah’s Witnesses to readmit her was widely misinterpreted by the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest February Christians ‘When I became a Christian, I was beaten and kicked out of the house’ Article 18 (22.02.2023) – Parsa’s story is different from a lot of other Iranian Christians who have experienced...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA: Orthodoxy on the eve of a split or secession from Moscow? By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (27.02.2023) – Lithuanian Orthodoxy maybe on the eve of splitting into two branches: on the one hand, the Lithuanian Orthodox Church (LOC/...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Russia to pay about 350,000 EUR to Jehovah’s Witnesses for disrupting their religious meetings European Times (24.02.2023) – Jehovah’s Witnesses Russia (03.02.2023) – On January 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights, having considered...