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ARMENIA: Building places of worship “not appropriate”

06/12/2013
forum18.org   (6.12.2013) By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Two of three applications by the Jehovah's Witness community in Armenia's capital ...

Armenia Offers Alternative Civilian Service to Conscientious Objectors

05/12/2013
Jehovah’s Witnesses reports, October 24, 2013 On October 23, 2013, Armenia’s Republican Commission granted alternative civilian service to 57 of Jehovah’s ...

IRAN: Protestant Prisoners list 2013

03/12/2013
www.hrwf.net HRWF (02.12.2013) - The following HRWF list does not claim to be exhaustive (*) but shows nevertheless the magnitude of ...

ARMENIA: “Imprisoned conscientious objectors should be immediately and unconditionally released”

28/10/2013
By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Armenian Jehovah's Witnesses have welcomed the release from jail of nine conscientious objectors to ...

Armenia 2012 Human Rights Report

19/10/2013
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Armenia’s constitution provides for a republic with an elected head of state and a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly. ...

Armenia 2012 international religious freedom report

19/10/2013
Executive Summary The constitution protects religious freedom; however, some laws and policies restrict religious freedom. There were reports of abuses of ...

Lawsuit against the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia

19/10/2013
About 20 teachers were released from work because of their religious views In February 2012 the catholicos of Armenian Apostolic church ...

Issues of religious education at public schools of the republic of Armenia

Stepan Danielyan, Ara Ghazaryan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Arthur Avtandilyan 12/06/2013
July 2012 This survey was made by the “Center of Collaboration for Democracy”. The survey was conducted by Stepan Danielyan (the ...

Armenia: new legal amendments to end conscientious objector jailings?

07/06/2013
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ Thursday 6 June 2013 Nine and a half years, and about 275 prisoners of conscience, after ...

Venice Commission. Joint opinion on the draft law on freedoms of conscience and religion etc.

19/10/2011
Strasbourg, 17 October 2011 Opinion 643/2011 CDL-AD(2011)028 Or. Eng. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) JOINT OPINION ON THE DRAFT LAW ON FREEDOMS OF CONSCIENCE AND ...