Throughout the past two years, the international human rights and religious freedom community has been pleasantly surprised again and again after seeing Sudan’s transitional government make momentous strides to return religious freedom to the nation.
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President Erdogan once again has decided to turn an ancient Orthodox church and current museum- former Church of St. Saviour in Chora and currently the Kariye Museum- into a mosque.
Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman and USCIRF Commissioner James A. Carr released an opinion piece on The Hill on August 20, highlighting the persecution of religious minorities and human rights advocates in Vietnam.
The New Humanitarian reports that Ethiopia- despite domestic and global concerns surrounding the emerging COVID-19 pandemic- publicly announced in April that it planned to transfer Eritrean refugees from Hitsats refugee camp to two others, Adi Harush and Mai Aini, in Tigray.
In August 2020, a disconcerting voice recording made its was way throughout social media in which Fulani man Ardo Bulama disparages and threatens Nigeria’s indigenous peoples and Christians, makes inflammatory and incendiary remarks, and insists that all attempts to cease Fulani activity will inevitably end in more bloodshed.
This week, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report detailing the United States’ history regarding sanctioning Iranian officials known to be involved in severe restrictions and violations of human rights and religious freedom.
22-year-old Nigerian singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy charges, as handed down by a Kano State Sharia court in August 2020.
In early August 2020, it was announced that Eritrea is the only nation out of 55 African countries to refuse to join the African Free Trade Agreement
The United States Department of the Treasury has launched a new round of sanctions, this time against (1) the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), (2) former XPCC Political Commissar Sun Jinlong, and (3) XPCC Deputy Party Secretary and Commander Peng Jiarui.
