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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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Centre of spiritual retreat for yoga practitioners in Buthiers

Spectacular simultaneous SWAT raids on Romanian yoga centers (II): Fact-checking of...

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Disproportionate use of police forces in search of… inexistent victims of MISA On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around...
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Fleeing from Jordan to Greece because of their change of religion

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It has been almost one year since Basir Al Sqour, a 47-year-old former military officer in the Jordanian army with the rank of "major,"...
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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 members in Azerbaijan

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Russia, Jehovah’s Witness Tatyana Piskareva, 67, sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of forced labor

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Talking with Alona Lebedeva, a woman in leadership and a heart for children

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RUSSIA, Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to three to seven years in prison

Picture of Hadee Laepankaeo’s family in Poland

Thailand persecutes the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Why?

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EU-MOLDOVA – Does Moldova repress media freedom or sanction abusive propaganda? (II)

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

Russia, TV Channel of an Orthodox Oligarch Under EU Sanctions

Russia, TV Channel of an Orthodox Oligarch Under EU Sanctions

President Mackey Sall (Senegal), widely praised for his democratic decision to stand down

Senegal February 2024, When a statesman steps down in Africa

Three Jehovah’s Witnesses taken away in a paddy wagon after being sentenced to 6.5, 7 and 7.5 years in prison (Credit: jw-russia.org)

In Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses are the most persecuted religion, with 127 prisoners as of January 1, 2024

woman in white tank top and pink leggings doing yoga

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

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

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Elections in Bangladesh, Massive arrests of opposition activists

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Human Rigths Day, Do not forget the thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped and deported by Russia

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Children in Armed Conflicts, the UN and the EU

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INDIA – Bomb attempt against Jehovah’s Witnesses’ gathering, three dead...

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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...
After his release from the penal colony, Seidkuliev was kept in a deportation center and expelled from the country (Credit: Jehovah’s Witnesses Russia)

RUSSIA, A Jehovah’s Witness deprived of his citizenship and deported to...

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On September 17, 2023, employees of the Federal Migration Service, contrary to a court decision, deported Rustam Seidkuliev to Turkmenistan. Earlier, at the initiative...
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Argentina: PROTEX’s Dangerous Ideology. How to Fabricate “Victims of Prostitution”

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PROTEX, an Argentinian agency fighting human trafficking, has faced criticism for fabricating imaginary prostitutes and causing real harm. Learn more here.
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Over 2000 homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses searched in 6 years in...

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Discover the shocking reality faced by Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Over 2,000 homes searched, 400 jailed, and 730 believers charged. Read more.
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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...
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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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ETHIOPIA: The UN needs to investigate massacres of civilians in war and no-war zones

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An independent UN inquiry commission needs to investigate the innumerable killings of civilians that have been perpetrated on the margin of the frontal conflict...
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The UPF: Moon Front or a Respected NGO?

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The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) might not be known to most readers of The European Times but it enjoys the UN ECOSOC general consultative...
Europe

Anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses claim some Nazi-time archives from Germany

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Germany: Property of archives in a German military museum claimed by anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses As reported by The New York Times on 25 January, Jehovah’s Witnesses in...
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Russia: Two Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to four and seven years in prison

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Over 80 Jehovah’s Witnesses are in prison in Russia, including four of them sentenced in the first three weeks of January 2022 Credit photos: Courtesy...
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RUSSIA: Aleksei Yershov is already the second Jehovah’s Witness to be sent behind bars in 2022

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A court in Seversk sentenced this 68-year old Jehovah’s Witness to three years in a penal colony. A week ago, Maksim Nikolayevich Beltikov was sentenced to two...
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EGYPT: Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 1960 call upon the UN Human Rights Committee

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On the occasion of the upcoming 134th session of the UN Human Rights Committee (28 February – 25 March 2022), the African Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses...
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