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BURKINA FASO: Nine killed in mosque attack AFP (12.01.2023) – Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said Thursday. The attack happened at around nightfall on Wednesday in the village of...
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OSCE/ODIHR: Training for civil society on addressing religion-related hate crime WHEN 1 February 2023, 14:00 – 15 February 2023, 17:15 WHERE Online ORGANIZED BY OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) OSCE/ ODIHR...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAN: Unbelievable injustice: two Baha’i women sentenced to 10 more years in prison Two Baha’i women, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, regarded as symbols of resilience in Iran after spending 10 years in prison, have been sentenced to a second cruel 10-year...
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...