Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: ‘I was a victim of a police raid and was abusively detained for two days and two nights’ Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
JAPAN: About the killing of PM Shinzo Abe : a press conference in France Press release of a delegation of the Universal Peace Federation Version en français ICI FFWPU (15.06.2024) – A delegation from the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU)...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Anti-Semitic gang-rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by teenagers The French authorities go on keeping silent about the family background of the rapists, most probably to avoid a social explosion and a landslide victory of the far-right in the upcoming...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Administrative court finds MIVILUDES’ statements about Jehovah’s Witnesses defamatory The Paris Administrative Court has concluded that it is “factually incorrect” to claim that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not report cases of child sexual abuse to secular...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Should Muslim soccer players refusing to wear an anti-homophobia badge be sanctioned? As it happened in 2022 and 2023, those who invoked “respect for their beliefs” are stigmatized and threatened. But the case is less simple than it may seem. by Massimo...