by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jul 5, 2012 | France
The applicant is the French association “Les Témoins de Jéhovah”. By a judgment of 30 June 2011 the Court held that there had been a violation of Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) concerning the taxation of hand-to-hand gifts received by the...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 20, 2011 | news
Tuesday 20 September 2011 KAZAKHSTAN: “TO PREPARE THE PUBLIC FOR A DISCRIMINATORY NEW LAW” Officials of Kazakhstan’s Agency of Religious Affairs (ARA), the state-backed Muslim Board, “anti-sect” personnel, and local administrations have...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jul 13, 2011 | news
The European Court recognizes that conscientious objection to military service is part of freedom of religion or belief Registry of the European Court (07.07.2011) – In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case Bayatyan v. Armenia (application no....
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jul 2, 2011 | news
The head of Miviludes does not like court decisions in favor of Jehovah’s Witnesses HRWF (01.07.2011) – On 15 June, Robert Menard (founder and secretary general of Reporters Without Borders until 2008) interviewed on ITele Georges Fenech, head of MIVILUDES...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Jul 2, 2011 | news
EUROPEAN COURT/ FRANCE Gifts received by “Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses” were taxed under a law that was too imprecise European Court (30.06.2011) – In today’s Chamber judgment in the case Association Les Témoins de Jéhovah v. France...