Express Tribune: The UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, expressed serious reservations on Tuesday about Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, weak prosecution, procedures of such sensitive cases […]
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The UNHCR’s Representative in Indonesia, Manuel Jordao, believes on similarities between Islamic law and international law, especially on refugee rights. He said that in a book review, […]
Source: VOA The leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has been charged with war crimes by a special tribunal. Matiur Rahman Nizami was indicted Monday on 16 charges, including genocide and murder allegedly carried out during the country’s 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Another tribunal indicted Abdul Quader Molla, […]
khuddam.org.uk: My name is Muzaffar Ahmad. I am originally from Lahore, Pakistan and my constituency is Garden Town which is part of the Model Town Majlis. During the Lahore massacre, […]
Editorial THE JORDAN TIMES May 27,2012 | 23:08 The tenure of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has been halved under pressure from the US and, no […]
Credit. Human Rights Watch via Wasim Sarooya (New York) – Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible for the May 2010 attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques that killed 94 worshipers, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 28, 2010, Islamist militants attacked two Ahmadiyya mosques in the […]
Express Tribune: By Khalid Ahmad: Even Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who should be committed to permanent jihad under Islam, thinks that Pakistan has been damaged by the label of “national security […]
Commission lists Egypt among countries with religious freedom problems Friday, May 25, 2012 By Catholic News S… By Maria-Pia Negro Catholic News Service “Egypt was one of 16 countries that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom singled out for particular concern in its 2012 annual report, released in March. […]
Crisis-enduring Greece received a bit of hope for belated justice. A re-trial of Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates in Athens, the very city that sentenced him to death in 399 BC, […]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-086-2012 ——————————————————————— INDONESIA: Ahmadiyah members in Batam are threatened, ill-treated and illegally arrested with the acquiescence of the police ISSUES: Freedom of expression, freedom of religion, minorities, police negligence, arbitrary arrest & detention ——————————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human […]
Voice Of America: by Selah Hennessy: LONDON – “Failed leadership has gone global” — according to Amnesty International’s annual report on the state of human rights around the world. The United […]
Russian TV: The seemingly noble move is tainted by the fact the very people accused of rights violations in their home countries – like the King of Bahrain, for example […]
Express Tribune: A cleric in Sialkot district disrupted a Saturday mass, abused the pastor and is now threatening to register a blasphemy FIR against him for drawing upon verses from […]
Ask Atheists, Christians, Shiites and Ahmadis: Indonesia Is No Model for Muslim Democracy Andreas Harsono | May 23, 2012 Source: Jakarta Globe. It is fashionable these days for Western leaders to praise Indonesia as a model Muslim democracy. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said: “If you want to […]
Editorial : Lying for the country The Jakarta Post | Wed, 05/23/2012 7:54 AM The trouble with Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa is that he has probably spent too much of time travelling abroad to really understand what’s going on in his own country. On Monday he said the government has […]
Anti-Ahmadiyya Mullahs of Sipah-e-Sahaba and Khatm-e-Nabuwat use Police to destory Kalma Tayyaba from another mosque in the Punjab province. Watch and Pray:
The News: by Ayesha Haroon: In Sultanpura in Lahore, a local cleric has taken the state hostage. He is insisting – and the local police is doing his bidding – […]
Ahmadiyah at the Bottom of Govt List for e-KTP Registration The Jakarta Globe: Mataram. The West Nusa Tenggara government put dozens of Ahamdiyah Muslims at the bottom of its list to register for an electronic identity card, known as e-KTP. Lalu Sajim Sastrawan, head of the province’s administration bureau, said […]
Agus Triyono | May 22, 2012 THE JAKARTA GLOBE Trying to counter the growing intolerance in Indonesia, the country’s two largest Muslim organizations have expressed support for the protection of people’s constitutional rights to religious freedom amid several incidences of unilateral church foreclosures in the country. “By law, the government […]
Source: NY Times By ANDREAS HARSONO Published: May 21, 2012 (Andreas Harsono is a researcher for the Asia division at Human Rights Watch) IT is fashionable these days for Western leaders to praise Indonesia as a model Muslim democracy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has declared, “If you want to […]