Can the Rome Statute help safeguard minority faiths against disproportionate state restrictions? A speech by Hans Noot, Associate Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, delivered
From a Tokyo flat to a landmark court victory, Toru Goto vows that the fight against coercive faith-breaking is not over Part 8 (final) of
The lessons of 1955: When religious prejudice becomes state policy as seen in today’s state-orchestrated persecution of Mother Han and the Family Federation The story
The echo of Sun Myung Moon’s acquittal in the authoritarian South Korea of 1955 raises questions about religious freedom and due process today The detention
Lawsuit by a Family Federation member highlights the risks of exposing religious affiliation amid growing public hostility Tokyo, 6th October 2026 – Published as an
What Voltaire’s defense of persecuted minorities 250 years ago can teach about religious freedom today Peter Zoehrer’s 1st October 2026 Substack essay, “The Pen Against
An answered prayer on the sidewalk: The miraculous end to Toru Goto’s 12-year confinement Part 7 of “My Experience of Abduction, Confinement, and Forced Deconversion”, a
An overlooked human rights issue: The long-silenced voices of thousands of Japanese believers abducted and subjected to coercive faith-breaking while held in prolonged confinement An
Toru Goto endured 12 years of dehumanizing confinement – only to be thrown out with nothing on a cold winter night. Part 6 of “My Experience
The dangerous regional precedent of turning the law into an instrument of state-sponsored religious persecution During an international Zoom conference hosted by the HJ International
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