Human Rights in the World
Human rights, the EU and Taiwan: Time to upgrade ties HRWF (23.08.2021) – EU-Taiwan relations, the effectiveness of the EU as a normative power and Taiwan’s journey to advance human rights in a hostile environment were issues discussed by a panel of experts and...
Human Rights in the World
The Czech judiciary questioned by the European Commission (Part II) Two Czech yoga teachers condemned to a prison term apply for asylum in their host country (Philippines) for alleged biased proceedings in Czechia Part I can be read on the website of Human Rights...
Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights in the World
Russia : Special bimonthly FORB digest (01-15.08.2021) 13.08.21 – Court in Krasnodar Territory sentenced 60-year-old Vasiliy Meleshko to 3 years in prison for talking about the Bible Link to full text in Russian: https://jw-russia.org/news/2021/08/131020.html...
Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights in the World
CHINA : Special bimonthly FoRB newsletter (01-15.08.2021) General 16.08.21 – There’s a religious revival going on in China – under the constant watch of the Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1921....
Human Rights in the World
The European Court of Human Rights ruled the application of Taiwanese in Norway inadmissible The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) refused to accept the case on the ground of “manifestly ill-founded” in July after three Taiwanese residents in Norway applied...
Human Rights in the World
Ukrainian blogger gets 3-year sentence over posts calling for a ‘referendum’ on joining Russia By Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (10.08.2021) – https://bit.ly/3jT0ua8 – The Chernihiv Court of Appeal has imposed a real three-year...