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Human rights organisations alarmed over recent persecution of Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan

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Many international human rights organisations are alarmed over the recent persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan The International Forum for Right and Security (IFFRAS) said that the organisations are documenting the systematic persecution (/topic/persecution) endured by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at the hands of religious extremists and state institutions. In the latest incident, a...

Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked by extremists in Indonesia

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Right to Freedom of Belief Under ‘Sustained Attack’ in Pakistan, Warns ICJ

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International Commission of Jurists urges Islamabad to take human rights abuses against minorities ‘seriously’ and recommends repeal of blasphemy laws Pakistan must urgently respond to serious and ongoing persecution of citizens from religious minority groups by state and non-state actors, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said last week. “The Pakistani authorities have shamefully failed...

How social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan

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If you’re one of four million Ahmadis in Pakistan, posting on Facebook can mean exposing yourself to danger. Last fall, in a corporate office in Lahore, 25-year-old Siraj, a fintech professional just two months into his new job, listened in as his colleagues discussed a murder over lunch. Two months earlier, a teenage boy had walked...

‘When the blood starts’: Spike in Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan

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Attacks and blasphemy cases against Pakistan’s Ahmadi sect spike, driven by the rise of a far-right group and a religious campaigner. When the first bullet whizzed past Sheikh Nasir Ahmad’s ear, he brushed at it, thinking it was a mosquito, out on an unseasonably cool August night in the central Pakistani town of Lalamusa. Before...

Bipartisan Group of Senators Express Concern regarding Religious Freedom in Algeria

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Last week, five senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the Biden administration to address religious freedom concerns in Algeria when meeting with the north African country’s officials. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) led the letter, and was joined by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ben...

International Community must pay attention to the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims worldwide

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On 13 July 2021, UN human rights experts have expressed their deep concern over the lack of attention to the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community around the world and called on the international community to step up efforts in bringing an end to the ongoing persecution of Ahmadi Muslims. “It...

Police Destroys Minority Community’s Place Of Worship In Pakistan

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After months of social media hate speech targeting, the Ahmadis or Ahmadiyyas — a minority community in Pakistan — continue to live in fear. In Garmola Virkan, a village located in Gujranwala in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the situation was on the edge after a few locals raised complaints against an Ahmadi mosque. But nothing could’ve...

The Right That Vanished from Algeria’s Constitution

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Freedom of Belief Article Dropped — and All Pretense of Respecting It? It is sadly commonplace that many countries that respect human rights the least have constitutions that respect human rights the most. Iraq’s constitution under Saddam Hussein, for example, guaranteed freedom of expression, assembly, religion, privacy, and the rest. What’s less common is when a government...

Ahmadi man killed in targeted attack in northwest Pakistan

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Abdul Qadir has been shot dead at the entrance to his homoeopathic clinic in Peshawar’s Bazikhel area, the latest in a series of attacks. Islamabad, Pakistan – A member of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya sect has been shot and killed in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police and a community spokesperson have said, the latest in a series...
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Ahmadiyya Mosque attacked by extremists in Indonesia
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