freedom of conscience

Articles

• USA: Anti-LGBT Christian martyrs-to-be
  26 August 2016, by siawi3

  According to their complaint, the women are scared they *might* be asked to design cards for a same-sex wedding !!!

• Kuwaiti blogger faces 10 years in jail for ’insulting’ tweets
  11 November 2013, by siawi3

  A 10-year prison sentence for a blogger’s comments on Twitter: Guilty of insulting the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, of provoking sectarian tensions, of insulting the Prophet Mohammed and the prophet’s wife and companions, mocking Islam, and misusing his mobile phone to disseminate the objectionable comments !

• Algérie : un non-jeûneur condamné pour « atteinte à l’islam »
  26 mai 2018, par siawi3

  Les services de sécurité de la wilaya de Guelma ont arrêté l’accusé, n’ayant pas observé le jeûne, entrain de fumer pendant la journée dans un espace public.

• Stop executing “apostates” and “blasphemers” and release them now!
  24 February 2015, by siawi3

  “Apostates” and “blasphemers” have not committed any crime and should be immediately released. The real crime is imprisoning and executing people for their beliefs and expression. Clearly, there is no place in the 21^st century for such medieval laws. Apostasy and blasphemy laws must end. And they must end now. Apostasy and blasphemy are punishable with death in Saudi Arabia and also in a number of other countries, including Iran and Mauritania.

• Kenyan Somali poet Halima Salat on coming out as Ex-Muslim
  13 July 2019, by siawi3

  “When people live in countries where their human rights are enshrined in the law, i do not see why they should not come out.”

• Defend Atheist Bloggers and Activists Of Bangladesh
  10 November 2013, by siawi3

  As humanists defend atheist bloggers, Islamists threaten “siege” of Dhaka

• Brunei : Gouvernements , organisations de droits humains et militants fustigent la nouvelle loi
  8 avril 2019, par siawi3

  Le blasphème est punissable de peine capitale. Un musulman qui se convertit au christianisme est passible de la peine de mort. Les homosexuels, les partenaires adultérins aussi. « Si le Sultan n’écoute pas ces appels à la raison et à la compassion, nous estimons que le gouvernement britannique doit rompre tout lien diplomatique, économique et militaire avec le régime » de Brunei.

• Bahrain: Domestic Workers Freedom of Religion and Worship Rights
  8 September 2016, by siawi3

  Approximately 460,000 migrant workers, mostly from Asia, make up 77 percent of the country’s private workforce. Due to shortcomings in Bahrain’s legal and regulatory framework and the failure to implement and enforce existing laws, migrant workers, especially female domestic workers, endure serious abuses such as unpaid wages, passport confiscation, unsafe and unhealthy accommodation, excessive work hours, and physical and psychological abuse. They are also being subjected to deprivation of their rights to worship and the absence of religious freedoms.

• 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?”

• Australia: The campaign to be federal parliament’s first female Muslim MP
  6 July 2016, by siawi3

  Aly insists that she is far more than her religion. ’I can’t help how I’m going to be labelled,’ she says. ’A lot of the media referred to me as a Muslim academic or the Muslim candidate and that’s OK. That’s part of who I am. But I’m also so much more than that as well.’ ’My identity as a Muslim is as a secular Muslim,’ she says. ’I do believe in the separation of religion and politics and that’s what secular in any form of religion is.’

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