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Read More Atheist Alliance International Arrest Two years ago today, Mubarak Bala was at home in Kaduna finishing breakfast with his housemate when he heard a loud and persistent banging on his front door. Fearing an emergency, he rushed to open it. Standing in his doorway were two burly plainclothes police officers. They grabbed his […]

Read More Atheist Alliance International Bangladeshi author, Shahriar Dipu also known as Diarshi Arag, was handed a four-year prison sentence for ”offending Islam” in two books. Dipu’s book was banned by the high court of Bangladesh in February 2020 after a lawyer made complaints against him. Soon after he was later arrested and put on

Read More Humanists International On the second anniversary of his arrest, humanists across the globe continue to call for the release of Mubarak Bala. The post Two years on, humanists across the globe call for the Governor of Kano State to Free Mubarak Bala appeared first on Humanists International.

Read More Humanists International Take action: Sign our open letter to the Governor of Kano State The post Open letter: Free Mubarak Bala appeared first on Humanists International.

Read More Atheist Alliance International In March of 2012, Raif Badawi made worldwide headlines when he was imprisoned and sentenced to death on the charge of apostasy after he became prominent on social media with his demands for reform, secularism, and religious freedom. Being one of the few known liberal thinkers in the country, and

Read More Atheist Alliance International When the constitution of Bangladesh was drafted, the 34 members drafting committee looked into the texts that emerged from the ideologies of the enlightenment era, namely the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Read More Atheist Alliance International It has been over a year that Myanmar is under the totalitarian regime of the Burmese military. This is something most international media wrote. The reality is that for over 7 decades we had been under the totalitarian regime of the Burmese military except for the recent 5 years governed

Read More Atheist Alliance International PRESS RELEASE March 16th Declared as International Day for Exposing Islamophobia and Combating Muslimophobia An international online event hosted by the NonReligious Citizens (NRC) and Exmuslims of Kerala yesterday unanimously condemned the Resolution by UN General Assembly to announce March 15th as the International day for Combating Islamophobia and pressed

Read More Humanists International The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia’s membership of the UN Human Rights Council, by a two-thirds majority. The post UN Suspends Russia from Human Rights Council appeared first on Humanists International.

Read More Atheist Alliance International Many people are under the misapprehension that Mubarak Bala was charged and convicted of blasphemy. We see some Muslims celebrating Mubarak’s sentence under the illusion that blasphemy laws have achieved their purpose and a blasphemer has been punished. That is not the case. Mubarak was not charged with blasphemy and