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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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Georgia Police violence in Tbilisi while President Zurabishvili calls for quick...

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Police violence // According to the Public Defender of Georgia (Ombudsperson’s Office) that I visited while in Tbilisi, 225 out of 327 detainees interviewed...
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Georgia, Election of an ex-footballer as the new president booed by...

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By Willy Fautré from Tbilissi - During yesterday’s demonstrations at the parliament, some citizens have brought diplomas – to mark the fact that the...
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Iran, the EU and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

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Hindu Forum Belgium celebrated a first step to state recognition of Hinduism

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Thousands of conscientious objectors in Ukraine under threat of 3-year prison terms

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Police raids on Romanian yoga centers in France, one year later

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Ukraine, Suspicion of Fabrication of a Criminal Case

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Germany Systemic mass-scale religious segregation condoned by the European Union for 10 years

Jehovah Witnesses in Russia

Russia, 147 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to heavy terms languish behind bars

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PANAMA, the cradle of the fourth edition of the Faith and Freedom Summit. Why?

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France – Yoga: Disproportionate widescale police raids with abuses starting from a personal settlement of scores

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In NORWAY the Russian Orthodox Church still financed by the State despite security concern

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The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief on mission in Pakistan

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UKRAINE The UOC, the historical branch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, on the path to be banned

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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...

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Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in...
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RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches...

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At least 19 people were victims of an attack on police officers, Orthodox churches and synagogues in Dagestan Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday evening....
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...

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Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the occupied territory of Crimea are currently serving heavy prison terms of 54 to 72 months for exercising their...
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Beware of the infiltration of pro-Putin journalists in the Brussels-EU Bubble 

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Researchers of the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) have just discovered an infiltration attempt by a pro-Putin Ukrainian media activist in the Brussels-EU...
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The EU and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, a fortress under...

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East of the European Union, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, 84, courageously holds a vulnerable fortress defending the historical presence of Christianity in Turkey,...
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Qatar regularly rescues Ukrainian children illegally transferred and kept by Russia

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On 22 May, it was announced that 13 Ukrainian children were returned from Russian-occupied territories to their homeland thanks to the mediating role of...
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America

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

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On 12 August 2022, in the evening, about sixty people in their sixties were attending a quiet philosophy class in a coffee shop located...
Asia

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

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On 27 July 2023, Aleksandr Nikolaev's prison sentence for participating in extremist activities was upheld in Russia. Learn more about his case here.
Asia

IRAQ, Cardinal Sako flees from Baghdad to Kurdistan

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On Friday 21 July, Patriarch Sako of the Chaldean Catholic Church arrived in Erbil after the recent revocation of a crucial decree guaranteeing his...
Europe

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

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HRWF (12.07.2023) – On June 26, the Federal Observatory on Cults (CIAOSN / IACSSO), officially known as the “Center for Information and Advice on...
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Belgium, Is CIAOSN ‘Cults Observatory’ at odds with principles of the European Court of Human Rights?

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Learn about the controversy surrounding the concept of "cults" and the legality of identifying them. Discover the conflicting views between the Belgian Cult Observatory and the European Court of Human Rights regarding "harmful cultic organizations".
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Russia, A Jehovah’s Witness to serve two years of forced labor

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Read about the case of Dmitriy Dolzhikov, a Jehovah's Witness in Russia who was found guilty of extremism and sentenced to forced labor.
America

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

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Today, on 29 June, Juan Percowicz, the founder of the Yoga School of Buenos Aires (BAYS), is 85 years old. Last year, six weeks after his birthday, he...
America

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

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Five women older than 50, three in their forties and one in mid-thirties are suing on appeal two prosecutors of the state agency PROTEX...
Christianity

Christians in Syria doomed to disappear in 20 years

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Christians in Syria are doomed to disappear within two decades if the international community does not develop specific policies to protect them. This was the...
Europe

A Catholic priest from Belarus testified at the European Parliament

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European Parliament / Belarus // On 31 May, MEPs Bert-Jan Ruissen and Michaela Sojdrova organized an event at the European Parliament about religious freedom in Belarus...
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