Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Nigerian Sufi musician, is challenging blasphemy laws, under which he was previously sentenced to death, at the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
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Rachana Chhin
LEGAL COUNSEL, UNITED NATIONS
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Meet the grandmother and Member of Parliament who never thought she’d face criminal charges for sharing her deeply held beliefs in public.
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DIRECTOR OF EUROPEAN ADVOCACY
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DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY, Asia
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DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY
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Paul Coleman serves as Executive Director of ADF International from its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, where he oversees the strategic legal advocacy and programs of the global, alliance-building legal organization.
Continue readingChristians banned from Türkiye
The number of Christians in Türkiye has diminished from 20 percent to 0.3 percent of the population in the last 100 years. An estimated 99% of the 83 million strong population identify as Muslim. Although Türkiye does not have a constitutionally recognized state religion, its government is increasingly marked by Islamization and nationalism, which creates challenges for religious minorities, particularly Christians
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Decisive victory for victims of religious persecution in India
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Turkey defies European Convention on Human Rights by discriminating against Christians.
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