With Human Rights Without Frontiers we are deeply concerned about the situation of the Ahmadis in Pakistan.
This year, the Ahmadiyya Community is enduring an alarming rise in violence and systemic persecution.
We notice a disturbing trend of targeted murders, desecration of mosques and graves.
This year, up to July alone, four Ahmadi Muslims were brutally murdered in religiously motivated attacks.
Institutional torture can take many forms, and one particularly insidious manifestation is when control and ideology take precedence over human dignity[i]. The case of the French police’s treatment of Romanian yoga practitioners is a stark example of this.
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has expressed concern, about the increasing violence and intimidation against the Ahmadiyya community, in Pakistan. In a statement released by the IHRC mentioned that extremist groups armed with weapons are specifically targeting Ahmadis for what they have termed as “Operation Neat and Clean Pakistan.”
During the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting there was a discussion, about the challenges Ahmadi Religion of Peace members are enduring in Jordan due to persecution issues discussed in a report presented there recently by Christine Mirre, director CAP Freedom of Conscience who emphasized the difficult situation of six Ahmadis currently undergoing trial over accusations of “heresy,” which poses a serious threat, to their basic human rights.
We are deeply concerned about the arrest in Jordan in late July of six members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, a new religious movement founded 25 years ago.
They were just distributing in public in Amman flyers which simply described traditions related to the appearance of Imam Mahdi.
They were detained in unhuman conditions, mice and rats infesting their cells. They were released on bail after about three weeks of detention. But they were forced to pledge a payment of 70,000 US Dollars, should they ever publicly express or propagate again their religion.
CAP Liberté de Conscience has urged the government to tackle its persisting human rights abuses and uphold its obligations outlined in the International Covenant, on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) according to a written statement presented at the United Nations Human Rights Council 57th session.
