Freedom of Religion and Belief
GERMANY: Germany denies Christian private school accreditation, case filed at Europe’s top human rights court German hybrid school—innovative in-class and at home learning model—takes challenge to European Court of Human Rights after accreditation denied Germany has...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: New legislation restricting missionary work breached the European Convention Registrar of the European Court (07.03.2023) – In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Ossewaarde v. Russia (application no. 27227/17) the European Court of Human Rights...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Russia to pay about 350,000 EUR to Jehovah’s Witnesses for disrupting their religious meetings European Times (24.02.2023) – Jehovah’s Witnesses Russia (03.02.2023) – On January 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights, having considered...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
European Court of Human Rights: governments should not call minority religions “cults” The Court ruled in favor of three Bulgarian Evangelical churches, and said its case law has “evolved” since it refused to censor two French report on “cults” in 2001. By Massimo...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Two women fined for religious work with children Forum 18 (13.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3PJV4h6 – A Baku court fined Shola Jafarova two months’ average wage for holding mourning meetings in the Muslim holy month of Muharram and organising children to...