Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious Freedom in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and Jehovah’s Witnesses LINK By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (11.01.2023) – The three post-Soviet Central Asian republics of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
THE JOURNAL OF CESNUR: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Religious Freedom in Central Asia The Journal of Cesnur: Volume 7, Issue 1, January—February 2023. LINK Articles In the Shadow of Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Religious Freedom in Central Asia. Some Introductory...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: 47 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison terms in 2022 Since 2017, Russian authorities have placed over 500 Witnesses on the federal list of extremists and terrorists (!) By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (10.01.2023) – As of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: New records in 2022 in the campaign of persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses The European Times (29.12.2022) – This year, Russian courts sentenced over 40% more Jehovah’s Witnesses (45) to prison than last year (32). This resulted in a peak of 115...
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FRANCE:“Église de Philadelphie”: How MIVILUDES and French anti-cultists invented a “cult” In 2011, the wife and four children of a French aristocrat were murdered. Anti-cultists tried to connect the crime with “cults.” Their legal case has now collapsed. By Massimo...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
European Court of Human Rights: governments should not call minority religions “cults” The Court ruled in favor of three Bulgarian Evangelical churches, and said its case law has “evolved” since it refused to censor two French report on “cults” in 2001. By Massimo...