LGBTQI People and Human Rights
BULGARIA: Anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown – Calls for sanctions against Sofia multiply EURONEWS (21.08.2024) – The controversial law against “LGBTQ+ propaganda,” which Bulgaria’s parliament — the National Assembly — approved on August 8, came into effect with its...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BULGARIA: A Russian defrocked cleric joins the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church European Times (22.07.2024) – Meanwhile, according to information on his personal page, the former cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Peter...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BULGARIA: Russian pressure weighs heavily on Orthodox Church election Andreja Bogdanovski Balkan Insight (18.06.2024) -The election of a new patriarch is intensifying divisions within the Bulgarian Orthodox Church between pro-Russian and anti-Russian factions....
Human Rights in the World
Mestan v. Bulgaria: A genuine recognition of linguistic rights? By Eva Meyermans Spelmans Strasbourg Observers (08.09.2023) – In the case of Mestan v. Bulgaria, the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) found that a law imposing Bulgarian as the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
TURKEY/EU: Over 100 Ahmadi asylum-seekers beaten at the Turkish border with Bulgaria Here is some footage of the violence at the border: https://youtu.be/ZkdkB_9HCFY – https://youtu.be/g49EqywMiko – https://youtu.be/EJEdgpST_Rc –...