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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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Five Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 30 years in prison in...

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Discover the ongoing persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, where believers face imprisonment for practicing their faith in private.
Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)

Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)

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Bitter Winter (09.01.2023) - 23 July 2023 was a Black Sunday for the city of Odesa and for Ukraine. When Ukrainians and the rest of...
The Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa destroyed by Putin’s missile strike: calls for funding its restoration (I)

The Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa destroyed by Putin’s missile strike: calls for funding its restoration (I)

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2 minutes for believers of all faiths in prison in Russia

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Hate speech and intolerance: the case of a philosophical yoga school (II)

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Hate speech and intolerance: the case of a philosophical yoga school (I)

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Russia, Cassation confirms a two years and six months sentence of a Jehovah’s Witness

Cardinal Sako

IRAQ, Cardinal Sako flees from Baghdad to Kurdistan

CULTS

Should taxpayers’ money in Belgium go to suspicious anti-cults outfits?

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Belgium, Is CIAOSN ‘Cults Observatory’ at odds with principles of the European Court of Human Rights?

RUSSIA, A Jehovah’s Witness to serve two years of forced labor

Russia, A Jehovah’s Witness to serve two years of forced labor

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Argentina and its Yoga School: Happy 85th birthday, Mr Percowicz

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Argentina, 9 women sue a state institution abusively calling them ‘victims of sexual abuse’

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Christians in Syria doomed to disappear in 20 years

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A Catholic priest from Belarus testified at the European Parliament

Argentina, a yoga school in the eye of a media cyclone

Argentina, a yoga school in the eye of a media cyclone

Ahmadi spokesperson interviewed by Willy Fautre for The European Times (about members of the "Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light")

Turkey, Physical and sexual violence by police against 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers

Members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Kapikule border crossing, the gateway between Turkey and Bulgaria on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Pictures owned by Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Used with permission.

HRWF calls upon the UN, EU and OSCE for Turkey to stop deportation of 103 Ahmadis

damaged religious sites - A fallen dome lies near the Church of the Holy Mother of God (‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’), destroyed by a Russian aerial bomb on January 18, 2023 in Bohorodychne, Ukraine. Global Images Ukraine

UKRAINE, 110 damaged religious sites inspected and documented by UNESCO

Jehova's Witness released from prison in Tajikistan

Tajikistan, Release of Jehovah’s Witness Shamil Khakimov, 72, after four years in prison

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In March-April, 12 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 76 years in prison...

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Not only Russian citizens disagreeing about Russia’s war on Ukraine or asking Putin to stop the war are sentenced to heavy prison terms. Jehovah’s...
Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad

Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad in search of partnerships in Brussels to...

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On 9-10 March, the head of the regional council of Kirovohrad Oblast (region), Sergii Shulga, visited European institutions in Brussels to raise awareness about...
RUSSIA, Six years and five months of prison for a Jehovah’s Witness

RUSSIA, Six years and five months of prison for a Jehovah’s...

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Konstantin Sannikov sentenced to six years and five months of prison
ECtHR, Russia to pay about 350,000 EUR to Jehovah’s Witnesses

ECtHR, Russia to pay about 350,000 EUR to Jehovah’s Witnesses for...

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), having considered seven complaints from Jehovah’s Witnesses from Russia, recognized the disruption of worship services from 2010 to 2014 as a violation of fundamental freedoms.
The aura of the ‘famous’ Cuban doctors smashed in the European Parliament

The aura of the ‘famous’ Cuban doctors smashed in the European...

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Cuban doctors and healthcare personnel assigned to work abroad are victims of human trafficking and exploitation similar to slavery by their own state,
Relationships between Morocco and the European Parliament at a low ebb

Relationships between Morocco and the European Parliament at a low ebb

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Morocco and the European Parliament – On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted a strong resolution urging Morocco to respect media freedom and the...
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Christianity

The persecution of Christians in the world, especially in Iran, highlighted at the European Parliament

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The persecution of Christians in Iran was the focus of the presentation of the 2023 World Watch List of the Protestant NGO Open Doors
FORB

Russia has set new records in 2022 in its campaign of persecution against Jehovah’s Witnesses

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The campaign of persecution against Jehovah’s Witnesses continues, this year, Russian courts sentenced over 40% more Jehovah’s Witnesses
FORB

Russia – Four Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison for up to seven years

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Four Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison for up to seven years for supposedly organizing and financing extremist activities while they were in fact merely exercising their right to freedom of religion and assembly.
Bahai

QATAR – In the shadow of the Football World Cup, a forgotten issue: the situation of the Baha’is

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During Football World Cup in Qatar, voices of non-Muslims have been heard and listened to at the European Parliament at a conference “Qatar: Addressing the limitations of religious freedom for Bahá’ís and Christians.”
News

Ukraine – Draft law on banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church

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The website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine published the text of draft law banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church on the territory of Ukraine
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TAJIKISTAN: Repeated calls for the release of an elderly ill Jehovah’s Witness

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TAJIKISTAN – Shamil Khakimov, a critically ill elderly Jehovah’s Witness unlawfully imprisoned for his faith in Tajikistan since February 2019, filed a formal petition for his...
Human Rights

Voices raised in Brussels for a ban on all forced labour products from China

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The European Commission “to propose an import ban on all products produced by forced labour and on products produced by all Chinese companies
Editor's choice

Sexual violence and rape as abuses of power in Russia’s war on Ukraine

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Presentation at the hearing “Sexual violence and rape as abuses of power” held by the FEMM Committee of the European Parliament on 13 October
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Six more Jehovah’s Witnesses firmly sentenced to prison in Russia in August

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The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last eight months, 26 of them have been sentenced for merely practicing their...
Asia

South Korea: Conscientious objectors, a legal battle against punitive alternative service

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Conscientious objectors: a legal battle against punitive alternative service Hye-min Kim, a Jehovah’s Witness and an objector to military service, is the first person known to have...
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