by HRWF | Aug 14, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Uncategorized
KYRGYZSTAN: 60 mosques, madrasas shuttered in Osh region Security services cited extremist concerns and building code violations as grounds for the closures EURASIANET (08.08.2023) – The security services in Kyrgyzstan say they have shut down 39 mosques...
by HRWF | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest July 01-15 14.07.2023 – The state prosecutor asked to sentence Jehovah’s Witnesses from Yaroslavl to imprisonment SOVA – The representative of the prosecutor’s office asked the court to...
by HRWF | Jun 10, 2023 | Human Rights in the World, Uncategorized
Two British journalists reporting on 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers detained for two weeks and beaten “They put my hands on my back, grabbed me by the neck, and just threw me on the bus, they have taken my phone even though I’m UK press.” See interview...
by HRWF | May 11, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Uncategorized
PAKISTAN: Cleric killed by mob following blasphemy accusation CSW (09.05.2023) – A local cleric in the city of Mardan, Khyber Pakthunkhwa Province, Pakistan, was killed by a mob on 6 May after he was accused of making a blasphemous reference during a political...
by HRWF | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Benin in the dock at the United Nations in Geneva HRWF full report HRWF (27.01.2022) – https://hrwf.eu – On 26 January, a few weeks after the controversial parliamentary elections in Benin the result of which was rejected by the opposition, the human rights...
by HRWF | Dec 30, 2022 | Human Rights in the World, Uncategorized
UKRAINE: The statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great removed from its pedestal in Odesa By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (30.12.2023) – Photo of the inauguration of the statue of Catherine II in Odesa on 27 October...