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human rights

  1. ronki23

    Theocracies and fundamentalism

    Why do people say that a theocracy / a country with an official religion is a bad thing ? They say literal interpretation of a religion would be bad too. Are these 2 things related ?
  2. danieldemol

    Yemeni journalist in Saudi Arabia gets 15 years for apostasy

    'Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ali Abulohoom, a Yemeni journalist based in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for tweets that, according to the Saudi authorities, constituted apostasy. Abulohoom has been detained since 23 August and...
  3. danieldemol

    Pak woman principal sentenced to death for committing blasphemy

    'A Pakistani court has sentenced to death a woman principal of a private school in Lahore for committing blasphemy, according to news agency PTI. Additional district and sessions judge Mansoor Ahmad observed that the accused, Tanvir, committed blasphemy by making derogatory remarks against...
  4. danieldemol

    Two Preachers in Indonesia Charged with Blasphemy

    'Muslim and Christian Preachers Face Prison Under Abusive Law Indonesian National Police have separately arrested and detained two clergymen on blasphemy charges. On August 25 Muhammad Kece, a Christian preacher, was arrested at his friend’s house in Bali for alleged blasphemy against Islam...
  5. danieldemol

    Iran sentences German human rights advocate to 10 years in prison over 'propaganda'

    'A German-Iranian woman was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, charged with participating in "the management of an illegal group and propaganda activities against the regime," according to HRANA news agency. Nahid Taghavi was arrested at her Tehran apartment in October 2020 and has been held at...
  6. danieldemol

    ‘When the blood starts’: Spike in Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan

    'When the first bullet whizzed past Sheikh Nasir Ahmad’s ear, he brushed at it, thinking it was a mosquito, out on an unseasonably cool August night in the central Pakistani town of Lalamusa. Before he was able to react, however, two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up alongside him and shot him...
  7. danieldemol

    Blasphemy Laws: Why We Muslims Need a Second Thought By Aliyu Bashir Limanci

    'Over a year after the arrest of Kano's famous humanist, Mubarak Bala who has been arrested and detained without trial, Kano is at it again, but this time it is a popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara being accused and prosecuted for blasphemy. Unlike the mainstream Sunni...
  8. danieldemol

    Ghana’s speaker of parliament says the ‘LGBT+ pandemic is worse than COVID-19’

    'Ghana’s speaker of parliament Alban Bagbin said Tuesday (29 June) that the “LGBT+ pandemic” is “worse than COVID-19” in remarks dubbed “insensitive” by activists. Bagbin, one of the most powerful politicians in the country, made the incendiary comment as lawmakers filed a bill that, if passed...
  9. danieldemol

    Pakistani policeman accused of killing man acquitted of blasphemy

    'A PAKISTANI policeman killed a man with a cleaver over blasphemy allegations years after the victim was acquitted of the charge by a court, police said on Saturday (3). Waqas Ahmed faced trial in 2016 over a Facebook post, but was acquitted. The policeman, Abdul Qadir, resented the verdict...
  10. danieldemol

    Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi Arabia executes man over teen protests

    'Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with protest-related offences, many of which occurred when he was 17. He was executed on Tuesday in Dammam, a...
  11. danieldemol

    Iran's hardline presidential frontrunner could take the country back to a dark past...

    Iran's hardline presidential frontrunner could take the country back to a dark past, just as Iranians are itching for change [Ebrahim] 'Raisi has played a decades-long role in a bloody crackdown on Iranian dissidents. The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has accused him of crimes against...
  12. danieldemol

    India Kerala: Sister Lucy, Who Protested Against Rape Accused Bishop, Ordered to Leave Convent

    'Sister Lucy Kalappura, who had participated in protests against rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, has now been ordered to vacate her convent. This comes after her appeals to legal forums within the Catholic Church against her dismissal on “disciplinary grounds” were rejected... ...In...
  13. danieldemol

    Afghanistan: Taliban tribunal gives woman 40 lashes for talking to a man on the phone

    'Taliban tribunal gives woman 40 lashes for talking to a man on the phone' Source: Taliban tribunal gives woman 40 lashes for talking to a man on the phone Apparently the man is also locked up in a Taliban controlled prison.
  14. danieldemol

    Alexei Navalny Calls Mass Protests in His Honor the 'Salvation of Russia'

    Alexei Navalny Calls Mass Protests in His Honor the 'Salvation of Russia' Source: Alexei Navalny calls mass protests in his honor the 'salvation of Russia' Good to see masses of Russians standing up to dictator Putin to call for a freer fairer Russia.
  15. danieldemol

    Exposed: Houthi plan to prosecute kidnapped Yemeni model Entisar Hammadi

    'Iran-backed Houthis plan to launch a criminal investigation against Entesar Al-Hammadi, a young Yemeni model and actress, who was abducted from a Sanaa street on Feb. 20, the model’s lawyer Khaled Mohammed Al-Kamal said on Wednesday. The kidnapping of Al-Hammadi and two of her friends is the...
  16. danieldemol

    Nigeria: Man stoned to death, set ablaze in front of police by radical Islamist mob on charges of bl

    Nigeria: Man stoned to death, set ablaze in front of police by radical Islamist mob on charges of blasphemy. 'On Tuesday (March 30) morning, a water vendor was stoned to death and set ablaze by an Islamist mob in Sade village in the Bauchi State of Nigeria. The incident took place in the...
  17. danieldemol

    Shia cleric slaughtered with an axe over allegations of blasphemy in Pakistan, video goes viral

    'Shia cleric slaughtered with an axe over allegations of blasphemy in Pakistan, video goes viral' 'As per reports, the Shia religious scholar has been identified as one Taqi Shah. He had gone to a local festival (mela) along with his friend Hasnain Shah in Basti Murad in Shorkot Tehsil. The duo...
  18. danieldemol

    Pakistani court grants bail to Christian man in blasphemy case

    'A Pakistani court has granted bail to a Christian man convicted in 2018 while still a teenager of insulting Islam by posting a picture of Islam’s holiest site on social media, a defence lawyer said. The court order in the eastern city of Lahore came more than four years after Nabeel Masih was...
  19. danieldemol

    Should the US push harder for a 2 state solution in Israel/Palestine

    Should the US push harder for a 2 state solution in Israel/Palestine? 'United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory Lynn Hastings said in a statement that the recent Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and evacuation of local residents and confiscation of...
  20. danieldemol

    John Smith lived a secret life before fleeing to Australia and changing his name

    'The Iranian-born reverend now known as John Smith was arrested twice after secretly converting to Christianity in his homeland and put into isolation. Fleeing to Australia, he was free to establish a unique church for others like him... ...Born in Iran to a Muslim family, he attended mosque...
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