Freedom of Religion and Belief
Police in Indonesia’s West Java charge man with blasphemy for desecrating Quran Iqna (07.05.2022) – https://bit.ly/3FH5pFF – Cepdika Eka Rismana, 25, a resident of Sukabumi city in West Java, was arrested at a restaurant in the city on May 5, police said....
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Questions from MEP Martusciello about blasphemy laws to EU Commissioner Dombrovskis HRWF (02.05.2022) – On April 28th, there was an informal hearing in the European Parliament (EP) to ask what the European Commission has done in response to the 29 April 2021 EP...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Former EU FoRB Special Envoy Jan Figel’s views on religious freedom (Part I) About blasphemy laws; violence against religious minorities; kidnapping, forced conversion and marriages of non-Muslim girls By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) HRWF...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’ Muslim woman convicted for sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives. By Asad Hashim Al Jazeera (20/01/2021) – https://bit.ly/3fPD0RD – A...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
It is time for the EU to question the GSP+ status granted to Pakistan Moreover, EU member states fail to provide a safe haven to a Christian couple arrested in 2013, sentenced to death in 2014 and acquitted for lack of evidence in June 2021 By Willy Fautré, director...