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• India: Killing of atheist Farooq - Another Sacrifice At The Altar Of Religious Bigotry
  28 March 2017, by siawi3

  Surely, if Bhagat Singh was alive today, would not have been spared by the theist butcher’s dagger. Atheist H Farook’s killing at Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) is another sacrifice at the altar of religious bigotry. Indian sub-continent is becoming the most dangerous zone in the world for scientific minded persons who naturally become atheist. Notably Hindutva organization which miss no opportunity to condemn ‘Islamic terrorism’ are in deep slumber on this killing.

• Syria: 15-year-old boy executed for blasphemy by Syria jihadists
  4 December 2013, by siawi3

  Muhammed Qatta, age 15, was tortured then executed in the northern province of Aleppo on Sunday by the Al-Qaeda front group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. According to reports, the rebels targeted the boy because he had said he wouldn’t give out coffee on credit “even if (Mohammad) comes back to life.” The saying - or at least a variation of it - is a common phrase used by Syrians “A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria spoken to by an Observatory activist said the boy deserved to die for having blasphemed†.

• Iran: Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs: Ahwazi Arab Activists Tortured, Risk Execution in Iran
  7 December 2013, by siawi3

  Justice for Iran issued an urgent appeal to a number of United Nations Special Rapporteurs regarding the torture of three Ahwazi Arab cultural activists in Iran and the real risk of their execution after an unfair trial before the Revolutionary Court of Ahwaz. The appeal follows the broadcast of their forced confessions by Iran’s state-controlled Press TV.

• Amnesty International: “Julian Assange must not be extradited to the US”
  13 April 2019, by siawi3

  “Amnesty International calls on the UK to refuse to extradite or send in any other manner Julian Assange to the USA where there is a very real risk that he could face human rights violations, including detention conditions that would violate the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment and an unfair trial followed by possible execution, due to his work with Wikileaks."

• Fears proposed death penalty for hate speech will kill freedom of expression in Nigeria
  2 April 2018, by siawi3

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, also from the ruling APC party, has equated hate speech with terrorism and condemned using freedom of expression as a valid argument to defend it. “Every genocide has been preceded by hate speech,” he said at a national security seminar organised by the Institute for Security Studies. “We must do something about it, we must control hate speech.”

• La jihadiste française Mélina Bougedir va être rejugée en Irak et risque la peine de mort
  4 avril 2018, par siawi3

  Elle devait être expulsée et placée en garde àvue àson arrivée en France, elle sera finalement rejugée. la Française va être poursuivie pour « appartenance àune organisation terroriste ». La peine de mort étant toujours en vigueur en Irak, Mélina Bougedir va donc jouer sa vie.

• Saudi Arabia: Ahmad Al Shamri’s appeal denied, sentenced to death for atheism.
  19 March 2018, by siawi3

  A Saudi Islamic Affairs Ministry preacher reiterated that the sentence for blasphemy is the same as for apostasy – death and no repentance was acceptable.

• 2017 Freedom of Thought Report Highlights World’s Worst Countries for Atheists
  7 December 2017, by siawi3

  The seven nations are India, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. In those countries, atheists were murdered, there were calls for violence against them, and “apostates†were sentenced to death.

• Turkish Authorities Knew About Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Within Minutes—What About the US?
  20 October 2018, by siawi3

  Saudi Arabia has an whole ocean of information about the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The hit was ordered by Saudi royals, carried out by Saudi intelligence in the Saudi consulate in full view of the consul. It also seems almost impossible that the United States intelligence agencies don’t have most, or all, of the information available to the Turkish authorities.

• USA - Saudi Arabia: Why critics accuse President Donald Trump of conspiring with the Saudis to cover up Khashoggi’s suspected murder
  19 October 2018, by siawi3

  “So the Saudis murdered a journalist they previously banned for speaking badly about Trump, and now Trump refuses to condemn them for it.” As Trump Accused of Conspiring with Saudis Over Khashoggi Murder, Dems Demand Full Disclosure of Financial Ties.

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