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• Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
  18 June 2017, by siawi3

  An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death for allegedly committing blasphemy on Facebook, the latest step in an intensified crackdown on dissent on social media. Authorities have asked Twitter and Facebook to help identify users sharing blasphemous material, and have distributed text messages encouraging Pakistanis to report fellow citizens.

• Serbia; State blessing for violence against human rights defenders
  21 December 2016, by siawi3

  On December 14^th 2016 Court in Belgrade acquits Radomir Pocuca for threats and endangering safety of Women in Black activists. His defense was based on freedom of speech. Pocucas explicit and brutal call for violance was presented as a „normal“ opinion, and practice of freedom of speech.

• USA: Supreme Court to Take Up Case Involving Tax Credits That Help Religious Schools
  30 June 2019, by siawi3

  The government was really just rewarding people for giving money to a religious school even if the law was theoretically secular. “The (tax credit) permits the Legislature to subsidize tuition payments at religiously-affiliated private schools,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote for the majority. “That type of government subsidy in aid of sectarian schools is precisely what the (constitutional) delegates intended (the constitution) to prohibit.”

• Algérie : 5 ans de prison pour ’blasphème’ c’est à dire pour avoir déclaré son athéisme sur les réseaux sociaux
  22 décembre 2016, par siawi3

  La Ligue algérienne de la défense des droits de l’homme (LADDH aile Benissad) bureau de M’sila demande aux hautes autorités du pays, quant aux affaires liées à la religion (affaire El Ahmadi, la reconversion au christianisme, et l’athéisme), de les traiter hors de la sphère de la justice.

• Algérie : Condamnation de 2 personnes pour blasphème
  22 décembre 2016, par siawi3

  La ligue algérienne de la défense des droits de l’homme (LADDH aile Benissad) - bureau de M’sila - demande aux hautes autorités du pays, quant aux affaires liées à la religion (affaire El Ahmadi, la reconversion au christianisme, et l’athéisme), de les traiter hors de la sphère de la justice. L’intervention du président de la république d’intervenir pour la libération des personnes condamnées dans ce contexte. Elle demande également au ministère de l’intérieur de l’intérieur et des collectivités locales de lui délivrer l’autorisation pour l’organisation d’une conférence nationale sur l’athéisme.

• France : Seine-et-Marne : feu vert à l’expulsion d’un imam marocain accusé d’avoir légitimé le jihad
  28 décembre 2017, par siawi3

  L’imam suppléant de la mosquée de Torcy, en Seine-et-Marne, accusé d’avoir « légitimé le jihad » dans ses prêches, pourra être expulsé vers le Maroc. Installée depuis 2003 sur la commune de Torcy, cette mosquée qui pouvait accueillir jusqu’à 500 fidèles avait fait l’objet d’un arrêté de fermeture administrative au motif qu’elle était devenue depuis plusieurs années « un lieu de culte où étaient prônées une idéologie radicale ainsi que des incitations au jihad ».

• India: The Right to Dissent is Being Threatened
  16 December 2016, by siawi3

  Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was recently held guilty of defaming two BJP members and believes that her publication was targeted because of her politics. Lankesh is concerned about what her situation says about the state of freedom of expression in the country. The fact that people who contradict the ruling ideology are being targeted and made an example of is especially worrying, she feels.

• USA: Justice Sotomayor Stands Up For Church State Separation
  29 June 2017, by siawi3

  “If this separation means anything, it means that the government cannot, or at the very least need not, tax its citizens and turn that money over to houses of worship. The Court today blinds itself to the outcome this history requires and leads us instead to a place where separation of church and state is a constitutional slogan, not a constitutional commitment.”

• Turkey: No Acquittal For Canan Arın, Case Suspended
  11 December 2013, by siawi3

  An Antalya court suspended the trial of Canan Arın - advocate and founder of Mor Çatı women organization who was charged with “insulting Prophet Mohammed and President Abdullah Gül - providing that she will not be sued over the same charges for the next 3 years. “I should have been acquitted instead. It was my expectation. I am not satisfied with the outcome,” Arın said after the hearing.

• India: Supreme Court says gay sex is illegal, only government can change law
  11 December 2013, by siawi3

  The Supreme Court ruled the 2009 Delhi High court order decriminalising homosexuality is constitutionally unsustainable. The Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is a criminal offense, a verdict that is a major setback for human rights in the world’s biggest democracy.

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