Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Olga Sibireva ICLRS (23.12.2020) – https://bit.ly/3nmYaI5 – In Russia, religious discrimination is often directed at new religious movements and Protestant organizations, and this trend has only intensified over the years. Increasingly strict state policies...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
In exclusive interview, head of Russian Orthodox Church in Baku invites defeated Armenians into economic cooperation after Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and laments lost ethnic fraternity. By Jayson Casper Christianity Today (05.01.2021) –...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (06.01.2021) – Walid Kechida, 25, was sentenced to three years in jail and fined 500,000 dinars (3,075 EUR) on 4 January for satirical social media posts allegedly mocking the government and religion. According to Kaci Tansaout from the CNLD...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
“Antisemites have blamed Jews for the medieval Black Plague to the WWI Spanish Flu” – and now they blame Jews for COVID-19, too. By Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post (30.12.2020) – https://bit.ly/3hL6i42 – The human rights...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
HRWF (05.01.2021) – On 10 December, Human Rights Day, CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) and HRWF (Human Rights Without Frontiers) held a press conference online to launch a White Paper titled “Justice Denied: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan”, an...