This paper was presented at the webinar “After the August 2 Taichung Decision on the Tai Ji Men Case: Can the Law Become a Tool of Violence?” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on August 22, 2024, United Nations International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.

The case of the raid on 28 November 2023 by a SWAT team (Special Weapons Assault Team) on a number of houses and flats where yoga practitioners linked to the MISA yoga school in Romania were gathering for their spiritual retreats had already been covered in this article of 16 April. Now Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, traces the incident by analysing the testimonies of 20 unfortunate people who suffered the indignity of the French police raid.

Washington, DC — On August 7, 2024 the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report: Afghanistan Country Update - This country update describes current religious freedom conditions under de facto Taliban authorities, including the introduction and enforcement of strict religious edicts.

Another ruling in favor of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, this time by the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Canada, which refutes the thesis dear to the anti-cultists that in the Jehovah's Witnesses – as in other religious minorities – the commission of crimes is implicit, to the point of making them 'systemic'. The Canadian court rightly pointed out that, in the case at hand, the responsibility for the alleged crimes is personal.