Forum 186d ago
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Kazakhstan: Anti-war Orthodox priest "kept in forced, absolute isolation from the world" www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

KAZAKHSTAN: Anti-war Orthodox ...
KAZAKHSTAN: Anti-war Orthodox priest "kept in forced, absolute isolation from the world"

On 22 April, an Almaty court extended until 23 May pre-trial detention of 40-year-old independent Orthodox priest Yakov Vorontsov. Arrested on 13 February, he faces drugs charges which he and his supporters reject. "Relatives can't visit Fr Yakov," says lawyer Galym Nurpeisov. "This is the Investigator's decision.. He could allow it." Police investigator Daniyar Kametov refused to discuss the case. Meanwhile, Guldaria Sherizat is appealing against her jail term for demonstrating against China's jailing of her husband Alimnur Turganbay. Her jailing is postponed until February 2027, when her youngest daughter turns 14.

Forum 18May 4
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Belarus: Regime official denies permission for 3 more Catholic priests to remain www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

BELARUS: Regime official denie...
BELARUS: Regime official denies permission for 3 more Catholic priests to remain

Plenipotentiary for Religious and Ethnic Affairs Aleksandr Rumak denied permission to Vitebsk Catholic Diocese for three Polish Catholic priests to continue service. Fr Zenon Szcząchor has been serving in Belarus since 1990. Rumak unilaterally decides without giving reasons whether registered religious organisations can have foreign clergy. His deputy, Sergei Gerasimenya, refused to explain the enforced departures. Arrested in March, 65-year-old Catholic priest Fr Anatol Parakhnevich suffered a heart attack. A Minsk KGB official told Forum 18 it would respond on his condition, why he has been arrested and where he is.

Comunidad bahá´í de MexicaliApr 29

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@sabeti_padideh

Gracias @FCDO_FoRB_Envoy por su compromiso con #FoRB y #justice y #rights de las minorías
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Cita Enviado de la FCDO a la Reserva Federal @FCDO_FoRB_Envoy

28 de abril

El Reino Unido sigue de cerca la terrible situación de las minorías religiosas en Irán.

Esto incluye informes aborrecibles de que los bahá'ís han sido sometidos a torturas
y simulacros de ejecución.

Seguiremos buscando la rendición de cuentas.

@BahaiBIC #Bahai #Mexicali #FelizMiércoles #news

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Forum 18Apr 29
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Russia: Anti-war Moscow Buddhist leader convicted again in re-trial www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

RUSSIA: Anti-war Moscow Buddhi...
RUSSIA: Anti-war Moscow Buddhist leader convicted again in re-trial

A Moscow court jailed Buddhist leader Ilya Vasilyev for 6 years and banned him from "administering websites". In custody since June 2024, the 52-year-old was convicted in a re-trial for an anti-war social media post. "Some people want to pressure Buddhists to fight on the side of one leader or another," he told the court. "But there are no soldiers' belt buckles with the inscription 'Buddha is with us'." Moscow City Prosecutor's Office did not respond on why prosecutors requested a custodial sentence and how Vasilyev could be considered dangerous.

Forum 18Apr 27
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Russia: Why did "intelligence service" sponsor attacks on French places of worship? www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

RUSSIA: Why did "intelligence ...
RUSSIA: Why did "intelligence service" sponsor attacks on French places of worship?

A Serbian court convicted three Serbian nationals in December 2025 of participating in attacks to desecrate 3 Paris synagogues in May 2025 and 9 Paris area mosques in September 2025. "Every time an event like this happens, worshippers wonder if they really are safe when they come to pray," a mosque employee said. The verdicts – seen by Forum 18 – say "structures of the intelligence service of the Russian Federation" gave the group instructions and money. These were the first known Russian-instigated attacks on places of worship in Europe outside Ukraine.

Forum 18Apr 23
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Russia: Anti-war Orthodox journalist's 8-year jail term in absentia www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

RUSSIA: Anti-war Orthodox jour...
RUSSIA: Anti-war Orthodox journalist's 8-year jail term in absentia

On 24 March, a Moscow court handed exiled Orthodox journalist Kseniya Luchenko an 8-year jail term in absentia for an online post condemning a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian children's hospital. She has lodged an appeal. If she returns to Russia, or visits countries with extradition agreements, she could be jailed. Luchenko is already on Russia's Federal Wanted List, "List of Terrorists and Extremists", and register of "foreign agents". Anti-war Moscow Buddhist Ilya Vasilyev is expecting a verdict shortly in his second trial.

Forum 18Apr 17
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Kazakhstan: Husband jailed in Xinjiang, wife to be jailed from 2027 www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

KAZAKHSTAN: Husband jailed in ...
KAZAKHSTAN: Husband jailed in Xinjiang, wife to be jailed from 2027

When Guldaria Sherizat's youngest daughter turns 18 in 2026, her 5-year jail term is set to begin. She was among 19 Kazakhs originally from China's Xinjiang Province convicted in Taldykorgan on 13 April for "inciting discord" against Chinese people for a November 2025 demonstration. Sherizat was protesting against her husband's jailing in Xinjiang for his protests against his nephew's jailing in Xinjiang for praying. All 19 will appeal. "None of them uttered a single word against the Chinese people," says lawyer Shinkuat Baizhanov. "They only criticised the actions of the Chinese authorities."

Forum 18Apr 14
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Belarus: Supreme Court rejects last-ditch challenge to Greek Catholic parish liquidation www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

BELARUS: Supreme Court rejects...
BELARUS: Supreme Court rejects last-ditch challenge to Greek Catholic parish liquidation

Brest Regional Court ended the legal existence of all three previously-registered Greek Catholic parishes in Brest Region. On 9 April, the Supreme Court in Minsk rejected the appeal by the Parish of the Brother Apostles Saints Peter and Andrew in the city of Brest against its enforced liquidation. Supreme Court press secretary Yuliya Lyaskova refused to answer questions. Pavel Bobruk of Brest Regional Executive Committee refused to say why it had sent suits to court to liquidate all three parishes, and where Greek Catholics should now go to pray.

Forum 18Apr 10
#HumanRights #FoRB #ReligiousFreedom #Belarus: Catholic priest arrested – by KGB? www.forum18.org/archive.php?...

BELARUS: Catholic priest arres...
BELARUS: Catholic priest arrested – by KGB?

Masked security officers arrested 65-year-old Catholic priest Anatol Parakhnevich in Alkovichi, Minsk Region on 16 March. They have held him since, including over Easter, possibly in Minsk's KGB Investigation Prison. "We know he was detained .. but we don't know where he is being held or what any accusations against him might be," says Catholic spokesperson Fr Yuri Yasevich. Told that Forum 18 was unable to find out why Fr Parakhnevich was arrested, religious affairs official Andrei Aryayev responded: "I don't have any information either." Minsk Region Police did not respond.

EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilaApr 1
RT by @EU_UNGeneva: #HRC61 #🇨🇾 expresses its congratulations to all who worked on the adoption of EU led resolutions on #FORB, HR situations in #Belarus #DPRK #Myanmar, #Rights of the Child, #SR mandate on sale & sexual exploitation of children.
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