An estimated 1,000 women and girls from religious minorities are forcibly married and “converted” in Pakistan every year.
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Suspended pro-life student secures settlement from University
NOTTINGHAM (25 Nov. 2020) Julia Rynkiewicz faced suspension from midwifery studies and a 4-month fitness-to-practise investigation as a result of her involvement in pro-life society. Rynkiewicz accepted Nottingham’s settlement offer following her formal complaint.
Continue readingUK students feel censored on campus, poll finds
Half of UK students fear peers would judge them if they expressed their views. 44% voice concerns about expressing their opinions in front of lecturers.
Continue readingUK mother challenges prayer and counselling ban at Europe’s top court
LONDON (25 Nov. 2020) A single mother is seeking justice at the European Court of Human Rights in response to Ealing Council’s criminalisation of prayer and counselling outside of an abortion facility.
Continue readingSuspended pro-life student secures settlement from University
Are universities stifling students’ views? Midwifery student Julia Rynkiewicz believes so, and her newly-settled case provides one such example.
Continue readingAbduction, rape, blackmail: A Pakistani teenager’s fight for justice
In Pakistan, a fourteen-year-old girl and her family were forced into hiding after she escaped her abductor who forcibly married her. She escaped and gave a statement to the court saying she was abused and blackmailed.
Continue reading“I will not be intimidated into hiding my faith” – free speech case concerning former Finnish minister continues
On 25 August, former Minister of the Interior and serving Member of the Finnish Parliament, Päivi Räsänen, faces her third police interrogation in recent months.
Continue readingFinal arguments submitted in euthanasia case at top European court
On Friday, ADF International submitted what could be the final legal arguments on behalf of Tom Mortier in his case against Belgium at the European Court of Human Rights. The case is Mr Mortier’s last chance to seek justice for the loss of his mother who was euthanized by lethal injection in 2012.
Continue readingThe Scottish Parliament’s new Hate Crime Bill isn’t really revoking the blasphemy ban. It’s reviving it.
Recently the Scottish government published a Bill that heralded an end to national laws against blasphemy.
In the same fell swoop, the centuries-old prohibition on criticizing religion will be replaced with a ban on any speech that “stirs up hatred” against categories of people, based on age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
At first glance, the intention of the law sounds reasonable. It is founded on the basic principle that “hating” somebody is wrong, and that certainly, nobody should be subjected to violence based on such hate. Part I of the Bill consolidates largely pre-existing legislation that deals with aggravation based on prejudice.
Part II, however, becomes more problematic by focusing on introducing new measures to outlaw the “stirring up of hatred”.
Continue reading ‘The Scottish Parliament’s new Hate Crime Bill isn’t really revoking the blasphemy ban. It’s reviving it.’ by Lois McLatchie at Premier Christian News.
Russian pastor may be forced to tear down his house for hosting religious services
Vitaliy Bak, the leader of a Baptist community in Southern Russia, may soon be forced to demolish his house for holding allegedly illegal religious worship services there.
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