apostasy

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• Soudan : Annonce d’une libération pour Meriam Ibrahim comdamnée à mort pour apostasie
  2 juin 2014, par siawi3

  Un responsable des Affaires étrangères du Soudan a annoncé qu’elle allait être libéré dans les « prochains jours ».

• Arabie Saoudite : nos amis les bourreaux
  10 janvier 2014, par siawi3

  Tandis que François Hollande et le roi Abdallah fêtent contrats juteux et alliance diplomatique, un blogueur saoudien de 30 ans, Raif Badawi, déjà condamné à 7 ans de prison et 600 coups de fouet, est menacé de décapitation pour avoir tenté de lancer un débat sur la religion.
  Impossible de finir cette année et de commencer 2014 sans demander aux autorités françaises de tout mettre en oeuvre pour sauver Raif Badawi. Au risque de se fâcher avec nos bons amis les bourreaux.

• 14 March 2012: International Day of Action to Defend Blasphemers and Apostates
  5 March 2012, by siawi3

  Countless individuals face threats, imprisonment, and execution because of their criticism of religion and religious authorities. Blasphemy and Apostasy laws as well as uncodified rules imposed by both state and non-state actors aim primarily to restrict thought and expression and limit the rights of Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
  On 14 March 2012, we, the undersigned, are calling for simultaneous events and actions in defense of the critics of religion in order to highlight medieval laws and exert pressure to save the lives of the women and men facing execution, imprisonment or threats.

• UK: Twelve years old, seeking asylum
  24 January 2019, by siawi3

  “I am proudly standing here to support my family, my belief: my atheism. I am fighting for my rights..../...How do you expect me to go back to Pakistan and learn Islam, when I am a free-thinker and an atheist? How do you expect me to go there and be proud of my atheism, when you can be sentenced to death for not believing in Islam?”

• Sudan death sentence woman ’freed’
  4 July 2014, by siawi3

  Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court

• Solidarity Statement in support of ex-Muslims under attack
  12 November 2016, by siawi3

  It is high time that human rights and “progressive” organisations stop legitimising de-facto or de-jure blasphemy and apostasy laws and start defending, not blaming, Islamism’s victims.

• Déclaration de solidarité avec les ex-musulmans attaqués
  12 novembre 2016, par siawi3

  Il est grand temps que les organisations des droits humains et de la gauche cessent de légitimer, de fait ou de droit, les lois contre le blasphème et l’apostasie et commencent à défendre – et non pas à blâmer – les victimes de l’islamisme.

• UK: On apostasy
  2 June 2014, by siawi3

  Video-Interview with Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s Spokesperson Nahla Mahmoud. On apostasy.

• Sudan: Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging
  12 June 2014, by siawi3

  Meriam Ibrahim Yahya is incarcerated and shackled in Sudan’s Omdurman Women’s Prison. Her twenty-month old child is with her, and she recently gave birth in prison to her second child. Charged with apostasy last month month, she faces flogging and then death by hanging.

• 22 August 2020 – First International Apostasy Day
  21 August 2020, by siawi3

  22 August 2020 is being established as the first International
  Apostasy Day by an international coalition of ex-Muslim organisations.
  Apostasy is the abandonment or renunciation of
  religion. It is a criminal offence in 16 out of 49 Muslim-majority
  countries and is punishable by death in many of them.

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