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

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...

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

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...

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

“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,...

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

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...

Russia: A Danish Jehovah’s Witness released after five years in prison

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

Putin recruits ‘Muslims’ for his war in Ukraine

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...

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

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...

RUSSIA – “Evil forces” fight against Putin’s army in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill says

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

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

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...

ECtHR / Russia: Two judgments in favour of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses against Russia

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...
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