Release of eight Christians

6 December 2016: Eight Christians acquitted and released (NEPAL) Eight Christians in Charikot, Nepal, who were accused of attempting to convert children to Christianity through the distribution of a comic book, were acquitted on 6 December 2016. Prakash Pradhan, Bimal...

Japan’s forceful de-conversions stopped

1 July 2016: Kidnapping and deprogramming of converts to new religious movements coming to an end in Japan  Since the beginning of 2015 up to now, there have been no reports of converts to the Unification Church and Jehovah’s Witnesses being kidnapped and confined by...

North Korean workers in Poland

  29 June 2016: Exploitation of North Korean overseas workers in Poland raised at the European Parliament HRWF presented a report on the exploitation of North Korean overseas workers in Poland at the European Parliament in 2014. This then led to: an exceptional...

Nepalese Supreme Court Decision

8 March 2016: Decision of the Supreme Court of Nepal finally implemented by the authorities  On 2nd March 2016, on request of HRWF Nepal, HRWF Int’l widely distributed a newsletter entitled “Government of Nepal reluctant in implementing a decision of the Supreme...

Release of Mihai Calestru and Oleg Savencov

25 March 2016: Released from house arrest (MOLDOVA) Mihai Calestru and Oleg Savencov, two members of the Unification Church, were both charged with trafficking in human beings and jailed on 30 October 2015. They filed an appeal against the decision made on 28 January...