APPG presses for release of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan

The APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, has urgently tabled questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to press the Pakistani Government to immediately release three Ahmadi Muslims arrested without any warrant on Monday 5 December 2016. Sixteen masked and armed counter-terror police targeted the publications department and office of an…

House of Lords debates human rights in Iran

Extracts from yesterday’s debate: Lord Alton: …Think, too, about the massive violations of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to believe, not to believe or to change your belief. On 30 November, a group of 19 human rights organisations called on the international community and United Nations to particularly protect…