Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief

WARNING: This article is from 2014, when Mubarak Bala was freed from the psychiatric ward where he was detained against…

A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria,…

Twitter recently agreed to block “blasphemous tweets” in Pakistan, thus becoming complicit in suppressing free speech, and in aiding Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.…

The Prime Minister of Malaysia has labelled “humanism and secularism as well as liberalism” a dangerous threat to Islam and the state. He is…

Humanist and secular organizations, as well as civil liberties and human rights groups around the world, have responded with outrage…

Several states in which convicted ‘blasphemers’ are currently in jail are also current members of the Human Rights Council. This…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is taking part again this year at the United Nations Human Rights Council…

Leo Igwe writes on a new wave of witch hunting churches in Nigeria The world may not have seen the…

The BBC covered the IHEU Freedom of Thought report this week, as part of a segment on prejudice against atheists…

For the first time in the UK, an atheist has been granted asylum on the grounds that his non-religious views…

Last week we announced the publication online of the Freedom of Thought Report 2013. A round-up of some of the responses follows below.…