Pietro Nocita is a professor of penal procedure and a penal attorney of Roma. He taught penal procedure at the University La Sapienza in Roma University which granted him a Diploma for Merit. He has been the attorney defending the only person in Italy convicted for the crime of Plagio, Mr....

On behalf of EMISCO, European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion, its Secretary General Bashy Quraishy has written to the President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mrs Anne Brasseur, to alert her on the danger of the report written by Mr Rudy Salles "The protection of minors...

Here is the official statement of the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain CONCERNS ON THE RESOLUTION “THE PROTECTION OF MINORS AGAINST EXCESSES OF SECTS” WHICH WILL BE VOTED ON AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2014 AT THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE. The Federation of...

The Chairman of the Board of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy has written a letter to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in order to point out the great danger of a report drafted by Rudy Salles, French member and rapporteur at PACE, as well as...

The President of the Islam Community of German Speaking Muslims & Friends of the Islam e.V. has sent a letter to the President of he Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mrs Anne Brasseur, to alert her about a report entitled "protecting minors against the excesses of sects",...

HRWF (24.03.2014) - Before the 2013 study, the most recent comprehensive one conducted in The Netherlands dates back to the early 1980s. It was organized in the wake of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana (1978), after intense lobbying of Anti-Religious Groups and a very active anti-sect group S.O.S.,...

Freedom of Religion as a Human Right: The Council of Europe’s Upcoming Vote on Establishing “Sect Observatories” (via World Religion News) For Americans accustomed to the (at least theoretical) separation of church and state implicit in the First Amendment of the Constitution, it may come as...