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Human Rights Related News Stories – Weekly Roundup

CANADA

Wife disfigured in vicious knife attack (mississauga.com) – 27 April.

EGYPT

Minority Rights:Egyptian Police Accused of Siding With Cathedral Attackers (UK Copts) – 22 April.

Religious Persecution: The Devil They Know: Regime Change and Christian Persecution (CP Opinion) – 22 April.

Political Persecution: Attacks on Egypt’s opposition on the rise (DW.de) – 23 April.

Egypt’s Pope says Islamist rulers neglect Copts (AhramOnline) – 26 April

Egypt and Persecution of Christians: USA, Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Sharia Law (GlobalSecurityNews.com) – 27 April.

 

EUROPEAN UNION

Freedom of Expression: European Union Spending Millions to Silence Critics (Gatestone Institute) – 25 April.

FRANCE

Racism: ‘Anti-white’ racism trial begins in France (France 24) – 26 April.

IRAN

Religious Persecution: Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) – 23 April.

ISRAEL

Freedom of Movement: Bibi Capitulates to Muslim Threats, Orders Feiglin Off Temple Mount (The Jewish Press.com) – 28 April.

MOROCCO

Apostasy From Islam: Will Morocco Inflict the Death Penalty for apostasy? –Part 2 (Vlad Tepes) – 21 April.

Morocco’s Islamist prime minister warns criticism of Prophet Muhammad ‘not acceptable’ (Washington Post) – 28 April.

QATAR

Exploitation:Millions of “slaves” to prepare the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (AsiaNews.it) – 22 April.

Sharia Barbarism:Man gets 40 lashes for drinking alcohol in Qatar (NDTV) – 23 April.

SAUDI ARABIA

Political Persecution:Saudi Arabia court orders arbitrary detention of human rights defender (Amnesty International) – 25 April.  More human rights abuses by the Western elite’s best friend in the Middle East.  This time it comes in the form of the detention of Dr Abdulkareem Yousef al-Khoder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Organisation (ACPRA).  Sadly the judicial persecution of human rights activists is increasingly common even in Western countries.  Western states tend to try to dress things up to make their unreasonable behaviour seem reasonable.

SUDAN

Religious Persecution: Amid Christian Persecution, Sudan Government Proclaims Religious Freedom (CharismaNews) – 22 April.

TURKEY

Erdogan Condemns Beer, Lauds Yogurt as Turkish National Drink (al-monitor.com) – 28 April.

UK

Freedom of Expression:Thousands rally in UK to demand end to anti-Islam speeches (The News) – 23 April. A demand to ban criticism of any religion or philosophy is effectively is effectively a demand to end freedom of speech itself.  Islam is having an effect on people’s lives and people have a right to discuss it.  Anti-Christian speech has been tolerated and indeed encouraged for many years in the UK – why do many followers of Islam believe that their religion should be beyond criticism and that it is ok for them to impose their religious beliefs on others?