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150 Christians forcibly displaced in Mexico pressured to accept illegal agreement

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(Photo: Unsplash/Jorge Aguilar) A group of over 150 Protestant Christians have been forcibly displaced from their communities in Mexico’s Hidalgo state and government officials are pressuring them to sign an agreement that violates human rights protections under Mexican law, according to a U.K.-based persecution watchdog. During a press conference this week, Pastor Rogelio Hernández Baltazar … Read more

SC overturns Gujarat's ‘illegal remission’ in Bilkis Bano case, orders surrender of convicts within two weeks

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Central Wing of the Supreme Court of India where the Chief Justice’s courtroom is situated. (Photo: Subhashish Panigrahi/Wikimedia Commons) In a landmark decision, on January 8, a bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by Justice B.V. Nagarathna, has overturned the Gujarat government’s controversial remission of sentences for 11 men convicted in the Bilkis … Read more