CAP Liberté de Conscience urges the German authorities not to deport Mr. Tahir Ahmad from Pulheim, Germany. Mr. Tahir Ahmad is a citizen of Pakistan and belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. As many international reports have established, the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan deteriorating every month. To send Mr. Tahir Ahmad back to Pakistan is to put his life in danger.
Tax weapons have been often used to discriminate against religious and spiritual minorities. This is becoming a global problem, and one the human rights community should be aware of.
In France, in 1996 a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry established a blacklist of spiritual groups classified as “cults” (in French, sectes). 172 groups were thus criminalized, and a policy of repression was instituted against these spiritual movements.
The Internet with Social Media has become “one of the most powerful instruments of the 21st century for increasing transparency in the conduct of the powerful, access to information, and for facilitating active citizen participation in building democratic societies.” The formation of an inclusive information society requires universal ability to access and contribute information, ideas, and knowledge so citizens can participate in discussions on public affairs and be part of the decision-making process. The Internet offers a new opportunity for developing policies on proactive transparency and dissemination of information and ideas of all kinds. Its speed, decentralization, and low cost allow both the State and private parties to disseminate information without barriers of borders, opportunity, or bureaucracy that once hampered such circulation
Pottuvil to Polikandy (P2P) – Demands and Pledge from
Several thousand people joined the march across the island
nation’s north and east, with demands that linked Eelam
Tamil civil society.
The five-day march for justice held across Sri Lanka’s north and east last february 2021
drew attention for more than one reason.
After months of restricted movement due to the pandemic and military restrictions, it was
the first instance of several thousand people taking to the streets to assert their rights.
The Religious Factor in the Farmers Bills Protests in India
LOCAL POLICE DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS DESECRATE
ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE IN FAISALABAD,
PAKISTAN AS PART OF CONTINUED STATE-SPONSORED
PERSECUTION OF AHMADIS
UN human rights experts* said today they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.
19 organizations and individuals join letter calling on the US State Department to place pressure on Azerbaijan to release Armenian prisoners of war and address religious freedom concerns in the region.
