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Cebu City to start inventory of unvaxxed; CHR cries foul

In December 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Committee asked Belarus to respond in the case of 33-year-old Jehovahs Witness conscientious objector Dmitry Mozol. In February 2021, a court in Pinsk fined him four months wages for refusing call-up to reservist military training on grounds of conscience. He failed to overturn the criminal punishment on appeal. The law allows only individuals who have completed alternative civilian service to be exempted from reservist military training. Alterna...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has questioned the legality of arresting unvaccinated individuals after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered barangay officials to restrain the movement of the unvaxxed.

Gareth Lee tried but failed to order the £36.50 cake at Ashers bakery in Belfast in May 2014.

The draft Religion Law prepared by the State Commission for Religious Affairs would – if adopted in current form – continue to ban worship meetings and religious education without state permission; make registering small religious communities more difficult or impossible; and might make it impossible to register communities that do not own their own buildings. It would continue to require 200 adults to found a community and apply for compulsory registration, but would require them to...

The European Court of Human Rights says British legal options had to be exhausted before it would get involved

The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) invited the Christian Community elders to celebrate Christmas festivities and to share the greetings of joy and peace that come along with these celebrations.

Russia has used increasingly strict legislation on "foreign agents" (a term which has connotations of spying) and "undesirable organisations" to curtail, complicate, or prohibit the activities of organisations which promote human rights and monitor their violation, including that of freedom of religion and belief. This "indirectly affects the people human rights defenders stand up for", says Aleksandr Verkhovsky of the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis (brand...

On 2 December, a Bishkek court rejected a General Prosecutors Office suit to ban Jehovahs Witness books and videos as "extremist", saying it had been filed under the wrong procedure. The General Prosecutors Office official who took the case to court said it will not appeal. "The repression is postponed for now," said Syinat Sultanalieva of Human Rights Watch. The NSC secret police – which backed the ban attempt – is also pushing to have Jehovahs Witnesses banned. ...

Police raided the home of Tashkent Muslim Laziz Asadov, seizing two Korans. The search warrant claimed he is implicated in a criminal case against a man he does not know and that they watched speeches criticising Uzbekistans regime and complaining that Muslims have no freedom. He fled abroad. The criminal trial of Muslim prisoner of conscience Fazilkhoja Arifkhojayev might begin in Tashkent on 10 January. He "will probably be given a prison term for crimes he did not commit," says his ...