“This is a very special judgement from the Supreme Court… the first time in the Pakistan judicial history” lawyer Saif ul Malook shares during a video call. He adds that this judgement will act as a precedent to help other victims of blasphemy charges. Courts in Pakistan regularly dismiss bail appeals for blasphemy law victims […]
In mid-December 2021, the newly founded Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) sent a joint letter with 17 signatories to the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken inquiring about the reasons for Nigeria’s removal from the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) designation list of countries the governments of which have “engaged in or
On 22 December 2021, Karachi high court allowed Arzoo Raja, a minor Christian girl to return to her parents after spending a year in a shelter home. In October 2020, she was forcibly converted to Islam and was married off to a 44 year old Muslim man Ali Azher. While this was welcome news, reading
Since 2017, the Algerian government has arbitrarily shut down tens of protestant churches for dubious reasons, including that they had not obtained permits to operate or that they failed to meet safety regulations. While it is true that many Algerian churches do not hold licenses to operate, that can be attributed solely to the inaction
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China Violates Children’s Rights to Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) China has adopted international conventions provisioning citizens with the right to freedom of religion or belief – i.e., the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child – and has outlined religious freedom in its
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USCIRF has been recommending Nigeria for designation as a Country of Particular Concern since 2009 in their annual reports, and its most recent 2021 report raised new concerns about the recent application of the Sharia penal code in northern Nigerian states, particularly in regards to a court recently sentencing a Sufi singer to death for alleged blasphemy. The Federal Court has since called for a retrial,
Statement by the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, Set My People Free, and Jubilee Campaign 8 November 2021 – Vienna and Stockholm, Gorinchem | A 2018 decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upholding the conviction of an Austrian citizen by a Vienna court for “disparaging religious doctrines” has been used by the Government of
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2 November 2021 | Today marks Pastor Raymond Koh’s 67th Birthday. This will be the fifth birthday Pastor Raymond Koh is separated from his family since the Special Branch of Malaysia’s Police force abducted him in February 2017. USCIRF has flagged the case of Pastor Raymond Koh and urged the State Department, in its latest
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Jubilee Campaign was honored to have had the privilege of hosting a side event to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee, titled “On Stemming Role of Criminal Groups in Contemporary Slavery Within Nigeria, With a Focus on Women and Children”. Our event was focused on raising the astounding frequency of mass kidnappings of predominantly
Nigeria As in just about every year of Jubilee Campaign’s operation, Nigeria has been a major focus of our work. In addition to major domestic issues such as governmental corruption [Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics’ December 2019 Survey on Corruption as Experienced by the Population revealed that Nigerian civilians perceive police officers, tax/revenue officers, prosecutors,
