by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 1, 2020 | France
Nous vous écrivons en tant que groupe informel d’organisations et d’individus qui sont des universitaires, des leaders religieux et des défenseurs des droits de l’homme. Nous sommes de confessions diverses ou agissons à titre séculier, et représentons un degré élevé de diversité. Bien que nous soyons très peu en accord théologiquement ou politiquement, nous sommes tous d’accord sur l’importance de la liberté de religion pour toutes les religions et ceux qui n’en ont pas.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 29, 2020 | news
Eleven NGOs and academic research centers specialized in human rights and religious liberty, two of them with special consultative status at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) wrote on October 28, 2020 to Disney CEO Bob Chapek, protesting an episode on A&E’s History Channel, part of its program “America’s Book of Secrets,” entitled “Cults, Hate Groups, and Secret Societies.” Disney is the co-owner of the A&E Networks, which in turn owns the History Channel.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 29, 2020 | CAP LC Event Coming, news
The event will comprise an address by the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief, a Memorial Lecture on the continuing work of Khalra and the UK launch of the highly anticipated book on Khalra’s life “The Valiant”.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 25, 2020 | France
Christian Paturel la france ses sectes la franc-maconnerie et le terrorisme islamiste
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 21, 2020 | France
Le projet de loi sur les séparatismes ne devrait pas s’en prendre à la religion
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 20, 2020 | news
Jaswant Singh Karlra Memorial Lecture 2020
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 19, 2020 | CAP LC Event Coming
FoRB Roundtable Brussels-EU
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 19, 2020 | CAP LC Event Coming
THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVALIDATES APPLICATION OF THE RUSSIAN LAW ON EXTREMISM TO PEACEFUL RELIGIOUS GROUPS
In a landmark decision, Ibragim Ibragimov and others v. Russia (28 August 2018), the European Court of Human Rights has invalidated the Russian Extremism Law as far as the Law’s definition of extremism allows the ban of religious publications even in the absence of any violence or hate speech.
The decision is extremely significant as the Human Rights Court found that any application of the Extremism Law must be based on actual incitement to hatred or violence in order to justify any restriction of freedom of expression of religious beliefs.
It is also significant that the Human Rights Court rejected the national courts’ reliance and wholesale adoption of the findings of one-sided experts’ reports to rule religious publications extremist, without any meaningful and independent analysis by the courts of materials characterized as extremist by experts retained by the government. The Human Rights Court also emphasized that the civil or criminal parties must be given an opportunity to adduce counter-evidence to counter extremist charges. The total process relied on by the courts in Russia in extremist cases has constituted a breach of the equality of arms principle, a practice of Russian courts which has become systematic in the recent years.
