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The United Nations and the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights are hopeful that there will be progress on accountability and reforms in the country’s human rights situation under the administration of President Marcos.

Secret police raided the homes of Sarsen Netekov and Nurlan Atalykov, seizing 150 religious books and accusing them of membership of the banned Muslim missionary movement Tabligh Jamaat. In March, an Atyrau court handed them one-year restricted freedom terms, bringing to 75 the number of alleged Tabligh Jamaat members known to have been criminally convicted since 2015. It also ordered the books destroyed. Asked why officers raided the mens homes and seized religious literature, the secret police...

The Commission on Human Rights has condemned the abuse experienced by two elementary students in Kalinga at the hands of their teacher.

Minsk City Administration and local police have warned New Life Pentecostal Church that meetings for worship in the church car park are illegal and threatened to liquidate the Church in court. Liquidation would make any exercise of freedom of religion or belief illegal and punishable with up to a two-year jail term. The Church meets each Sunday in the car park after officials evicted it in February 2021 from the church building it bought in 2002. Officials refuse to explain why the Church cannot...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided to review the measures applied to cases involving Ukraine after the aggression of the Russian Federation and to return some aspects of the normal consideration of such cases from September 1, 2022.

Protestants say secret police encouraged a former church member to lodge a suit against New Life Church – now in court in Pavlodar - claiming back pay and compensation for moral damages for volunteer work in a rehabilitation centre. "This is not a state campaign against the Church," a local religious affairs official claimed, though the individual met officials and a state-backed anti-"sect" centre. Jehovahs Witnesses are appealing a decision awarding large "compen...

Women journalists in Pakistan are facing increasing levels of online harassment. It is more important than ever to listen to the experiences of women journalists, and look at how to stop this online abuse, writes Lubna Jerar Naqvi

Without facilities at Gomels Living Faith Church, Pastor Dmitry Podlobko held river baptisms in late 2021 without state permission. He was fined two days average wage and his Church was warned. So he held baptisms in July 2022 in his garden. Police summoned him and a court fined him two weeks average wage. Asked whether Podlobko would have been punished had he and his friends been swimming, Police Chief Vasili Kravtsov responded: "They werent swimming in the pool. This was a religious ritua...

A Bukhara Region court jailed 47-year-old Bobirjon Tukhtamurodov for 5 years 1 month for participating in a group that met to study the works of Muslim theologian Said Nursi. Judge Akrom Rakhimov told Forum 18 that prisoner of conscience Tukhtamurodov was jailed as: "He not only read literature, but spread his beliefs and met others." He had returned from exile in Russia after Uzbekistans regime told him he would not be jailed.