A tabloid’s campaign led the Ministry of Churches to start a “supervision case” based on accusations already judged ill-founded almost everywhere in the world.
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Blood Transfusions and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Why the European Court of Human Rights Ruled Against Spain
The Grand Chamber unanimously ruled that a competent adult patient has the right to refuse any medical treatment, including blood transfusion.
Universal Peace Federation and Women’s Federation for World Peace Take Japan’s Religious Liberty Crisis to the United Nations
In Geneva, a special briefing and two oral statements at the UN Human Rights Council reminded the international community that what is happening is a serious threat to freedom of religion with global implications.
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan Leaders Sentenced for Death Threats Against Geert Wilders
Saad Husain Rizvi and Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali were sentenced to four and fourteen years in jail respectively by the District Court of The Hague.
St. Petersburg Court Finds an “Anti-Russian Conspiracy” in LaVey’s “The Satanic Bible”
The judges accepted the bizarre theory that the book promotes hostility to Russia, in addition to LGBT activism and extremism.
Costa Rica: Constitutional Court Orders Removed Crucifix to Be Reinstalled in Public Hospital
The Director of Hospital México had removed the image in the name of religious freedom of non-Catholics. A nurse sued him and won.
Guru Jára: The End of a Legal Saga
Czech judges finally ruled, defeating a stubborn prosecutor, that Jára and his co-worker Barbora Plášková should be freed from jail.
Pakistan, Anti-Rape Activist Asma Batool in Jail for Blasphemy Charges
The popular YouTuber was arrested for reading an anti-rape poem that allegedly includes a verse offensive to religion.
Italy, The Homicide of Sharon Verzeni: Will the Media Apologize to Scientology?
A young woman who took Scientology courses was assassinated. Before it came out that the crime had nothing to do with Scientology, some media and anti-cultists used the tragedy to attack the church.
A Swiss Criticism of the French MIVILUDES: “Opaque Methods, Imprecise Data”
The Director of the Intercantonal Information Center on Beliefs (CIC) co-signed a severe indictment of the French governmental anti-cult agency.