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Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in December 1988. His organization defends human rights in general with a special focus on ethnic and religious minorities, freedom of expression, women’s rights and LGBT people. HRWF is independent from any political movement and any religion. Fautré has carried out fact-finding missions on human rights in more than 25 countries, including in perilous regions such as in Iraq, in Sandinist Nicaragua or in Maoist held territories of Nepal. He is a lecturer in universities in the field of human rights. He has published many articles in university journals about relations between state and religions. He is a member of the Press Club in Brussels. He is a human rights advocate at the UN, the European Parliament and the OSCE.
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The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief on...

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The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Mr Frans van Daele, is on the eve of carrying out a fact-finding mission...
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UKRAINE The UOC, the historical branch of the Russian Orthodox Church...

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On Independence Day, President Zelensky signed Law № 8371 banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine through the Ukrainian Orthodox...
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FRANCE Police raids on peaceful yoga practitioners and abuses in police custody

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Russia, A court fined a disabled Jehovah’s Witness suffering from cancer to 4500 USD

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European Court: Russia to pay 160,000 EUR to 16 Jehovah’s Witnesses, but no chance they will ever see that money

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One year after the Russian shelling of Odesa and its Cathedral, still no financial assistance from UNESCO

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Argentina – BAYS Yoga School, Nullity of elevation to trial confirmed by the Cassation Court

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Russia – Three Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 78, 74 and 27 months in prison

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FRANCE – I was a victim of a police raid and was abusively detained for two days and two nights

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RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked

Sergey Filatov, a Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years in a penal colony for worshipping in private

RUSSIA: Heavy prison terms for 9 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the occupied territory of Crimea

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Beware of the infiltration of pro-Putin journalists in the Brussels-EU Bubble 

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The EU and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, a fortress under siege

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Qatar regularly rescues Ukrainian children illegally transferred and kept by Russia

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A Russian Jehovah’s Witness was sentenced to 8 years in prison 

Centre of spiritual retreat for yoga practitioners in Buthiers

Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers (II): Fact-checking of the operation in Buthiers, France

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Fleeing from Jordan to Greece because of their change of religion

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Faith-based organizations making the world better through social and humanitarian work

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Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017

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Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers in France: Fact checking

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Fleeing Persecution, The Plight of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light...

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Namiq and Mammadagha's Story Exposes Systematic Religious Discrimination It has been almost one year since best friends Namiq Bunyadzade (32) and Mammadagha Abdullayev (32) left...
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Russia, Jehovah’s Witness Tatyana Piskareva, 67, sentenced to 2 years and...

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She was just participating in a religious worship online. Earlier, her husband Vladimir received six years in prison on similar charges. Tatyana Piskareva, a pensioner from...
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Talking with Alona Lebedeva, a woman in leadership and a heart...

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During a recent visit to Brussels of Alona Lebedeva, the head of the industrial Aurum Group, I had the opportunity to meet and interview...
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RUSSIA, Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to three to seven years in...

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On 5 March, a Russian court in Irkutsk convicted nine Jehovah’s Witness men, sentencing them from three to seven years of prison. The case...
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Thailand persecutes the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Why?

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Poland has recently provided a safe haven to a family of asylum-seekers from Thailand, persecuted on religious grounds in their country of origin, which...
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EU-MOLDOVA – Does Moldova repress media freedom or sanction abusive propaganda?...

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At the end of February 2022, after Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, the Moldovan parliament introduced a state of emergency for a period...
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Europe

EU-MOLDOVA: Does Moldova unduly repress media freedom? (I)

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EU-MOLDOVA - The founder and head of a media outlet under EU sanctions and Moldovan sanctions for pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation creates “Stop Media...
Europe

Russia, TV Channel of an Orthodox Oligarch Under EU Sanctions

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On 18 December 2023, the Council of the European Union imposed restrictive measures on Tsargrad TV Channel (Царьград ТВ) belonging to and financed by...
Africa

Senegal February 2024, When a statesman steps down in Africa

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The presidential election in Senegal is already noteworthy before it even happens on 25 February 2024. This is because President Macky Sall told the...
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In Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses are the most persecuted religion, with 127 prisoners as of January 1, 2024

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As of January 1, 2024, 127 Jehovah’s Witnesses were in prison in Russia for practising their faith in private homes, according to the last...
America

Argentina, a yoga school falsely described as a “horror cult” close to acquittal from any crime

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On 7 December, the Argentinian newspaper “LA NACION” titled an article about the Buenos Aires Yoga School (BAYS) accused of criminal activities “The case...
Human Rights

RUSSIA, 6 and 4 years in prison for a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses

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On 18 December 2023, the judge of the Novosibirsk District Court, Oleg Karpets, sentenced Marina Chaplykina to 4 years in prison, and Valeriy Maletskov...
Asia

Elections in Bangladesh, Massive arrests of opposition activists

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The upcoming general elections in Bangladesh are marred by claims of repression, arrests, and violence against the opposition. The UN and the US have raised concerns about human rights violations, while the EU highlights extrajudicial killings.
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Human Rigths Day, Do not forget the thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped and deported by Russia

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On UN Human Rights Day, 10 December, thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped and deported by Russia, whose parents are desperately searching for a way...
Europe

Children in Armed Conflicts, the UN and the EU

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In 2022, a total of 2,496 children, some as young as 8-years-old, were verified by the United Nations as detained for their actual or...
Asia

INDIA – Bomb attempt against Jehovah’s Witnesses’ gathering, three dead and dozens injured

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A former Jehovah’s Witness claims responsibility. After Germany (March 2023) and Italy (April 2023), Jehovah’s Witnesses are now killed in a bomb attack in...
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