Freedom of Religion and Belief
Repeated calls for the release of an elderly ill Jehovah’s Witness By Willy Fautré Shamil Khakimov, a critically ill elderly Jehovah’s Witness unlawfully imprisoned for his faith in Tajikistan since February 2019, filed a formal petition for his release to the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
82 Ukrainian academics denounce FECRIS for its links with Moscow On 18 November, Bitter Winter published an article titled “82 Ukrainian Academics Ask France to Stop Supporting the Anti-Cult Federation FECRIS” revealing that virtually all Ukrainian scholars of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest (01–15.11.2022) 15.11.2022 – In Novosibirsk, 67-year-old Aleksandr Seredkin was sentenced to six years in prison for reading the Bible Link to full text in...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
CHINA: Religious persecution and issues, Bimonthly Digest Nov. 1-15 HRWF Database of Protestant Prisoners’Documented Cases below in short or here Buddhists 07.11.2022 – China imprisons 2 Tibetan monks for sending donations to Dalai Lama Chinese...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious freedom issues raised at the UN in Geneva HRWF (15.11.2022) – On 9 November, Indonesia’s human rights report was reviewed in the framework of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. The issue of religious freedom was particularly raised by...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Hungarian nationalist party calls for a ban on ritual slaughter Hungary Today (08.11.2022) – https://bit.ly/3EbNian – Referring to European legal practice and animal rights, the Our Homeland party calls for a ban on ritual kosher and halal slaughter. The...