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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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Final sentences to prison terms for 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses since 1 January 2022

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The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last six months, 20 of them have been sentenced for practising their religion...
Asia

Czech MEP Zdechovsky : ”Organ harvesting is a lucrative state-sponsored business in China”

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“Organ harvesting is a lucrative business that is state-sponsored in China and specifically targets Falun Gong practitioners as well as other prisoners of conscience,...
Europe

BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses acquitted on appeal for alleged discrimination and incitement to hatred

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Jehovah's Witnesses acquitted on appeal for alleged discrimination and incitement to hatred On 7 June 2022, the Ghent Court of Appeal acquitted the Belgian Association of Jehovah's...
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Russia: A Danish Jehovah’s Witness released after five years in prison

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After five years spent in prison, Dennis Christensen was released this Tuesday 24th May. He is expected to be deported to Denmark on Wednesday...
News

Putin recruits ‘Muslims’ for his war in Ukraine

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In the name of the alleged defence of the “Russian World” and the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Ukraine (against their will), President Vladimir Putin has...
Human Rights

Why was a British Brussels-based journalist abusively detained and interrogated in Calais?

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Martin Banks, a well-known British journalist in the EU Bubble in Brussels, was stopped and detained by the British police authorities at the Eurotunnel...
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RUSSIA – “Evil forces” fight against Putin’s army in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill says

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Surprisingly and shockingly, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia declared “about the events going on in Ukraine,” in his homily on Sunday 27...
Europe

RUSSIA: Jehovah’s Witness deported to… Ukraine (!) after his release

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Konstantin Bazhenov was deprived of his citizenship due to his criminal prosecution. See a video report and his testimony in Russian. In 2021, one of the first Jehovah's...
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ECtHR / Russia: Two judgments in favour of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses against Russia

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On 22 February, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued two judgments in favor of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses and found that Russia violated...
Asia

Jan Figel responds to HRWF on FoRB in Pakistan

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About laws to be amended; Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis and Muslims in prison or on the death row on blasphemy charges; the EU monitoring of...
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