Four young FoRB champions on the panel last week in Praha bring insights on transnational repression by Communist states and theocratic regimes, they also raise the importance of the work of individual champions in pushing back against transnational repression. Watch and act! [Link 🧵⬇️]

Praha: night and day

From Maryam Rostampour-Keller - a survivor of persecution by the Islamic Republic of Iran:

@ginitastar.bsky.social 🙏⤵️

Today the Irf Secretariat #FaithUnchained campaign launches - an informal group of orgs from diverse religious & ethnic backgrounds joining forces to call for the release of religious prisoners of conscience.

Day 1: We are urging Nigeria to release young Yahaya Aminu Sharif.⬇️

#FreeYahaya

Sun has set outside. Adjacent to the UN building, a North Korean escapee shares about the torture he survived when refouled by the Chinese government to North Korea.

He calls on the @UN and member states to protect North Korean refugees in China.

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"The time of distress is limited.
You, my Lord, are faithful."

#HeidiJosua

#character

The best part of this work is the beautiful and passionate people you meet along the way.

snow in the dmv.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sin [...] There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear. [...] We love Him, because He first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar." 1 John 4

Short but sweet time with my family ❤️

"It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back." - Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

#FreeAbdulbaqiSaeedAbdo
Egypt has for 3 years:
- Detained Abdulbaqi without trial.
- Separated Abdulbaqi from his children.
- Violated Abdulbaqi's freedom of religion or belief.
-Threatened Abdulbaqi's health

Three years, on Sunday 15th December, since Egyptian authorities raided Abdulbaqi's home and arrested him, merely for not believing in Islam and sharing his views online.
It marks three years the Egyptian authorities have been separating him from his family.
#blasphemyisnotacrime #apostasyisaright

Incredibly proud of my dad. 70+ years old and out in Stockholm for 9hours in the cold to bring attention to these stories ⤵️

#endblasphemylaws
#apostasyisnotacrime