A State Security official and the local police chief outside the home of Pastor Ibrahim Rosabal Viamonte.
#Cuba: Officials in Palma Soriano are attempting to force the adult son of the pastors of an unregistered church to complete military service, in rejection of his request to be exempt due to his conscientious objection.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/03/09/p...
https://www.csw.org.uk/venezuelareport
CSW's new report on #FoRB in #Venezuela emphasises that despite the removal of President Maduro, leaders in the Socialist Union of Venezuela Party and allied parties remain entrenched in power and responsible for extensive human rights violations.
Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/venezuelarep...
#Sudan: CSW welcomes #USCIRFโs recommendation that the State Department should designate the #RSF an Entity of Particular Concern.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/03/06/p...
The reports of sectarian violence coming out of #Syria in this year alone highlight the challenges that lay before the countryโs transitional government if it is to make good on its promises of justice and inclusivity.
Read more in CSW's latest blog: forbinfull.org/2026/03/05/t...
What Maduro's Capture Means For Religious Freedom in Venezuela www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUmJ...
#HRC61: Today CSW raised the case of 13yo David Tarfa, who died on 28 January in a state-run orphanage in Kano, #Nigeria after authorities failed to provide him with urgently needed medical attention, urging the Nigerian govt to intervene in efforts to bury him in accordance with Islamic rites.
As #Nepal prepares to head to the polls on 5 March, the nation finds itself at a profound crossroads.
CSW spoke to Pastor Tanka Subedi, a human rights defender based in #Kathmandu, about what's at stake in the upcoming election.
Read the interview here: forbinfull.org/2026/03/02/w...
#EU / #India:
Whilst welcoming the inclusion of some standard human rights elements in the recently negotiated EU-India free trade agreement, CSW is concerned by the exclusion of the chapter on sustainable development from dispute settlement.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/03/02/p...
Nada Salem and Khidr Karakeet, Alawites killed 18 Feb 2026
Iman Jarrous, Christian woman killed 23 Feb 2026
Three civilians have been killed in an escalation in sectarian attacks in Homs, #Syria.
On 18 Feb, two Alawites were shot at close range by masked men riding a motorcycle.
Five days later a Christian schoolteacher was shot in the head in the same neighbourhood.
www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/25/p...
Prayer meeting on 16 Feb 2026 after killing of three Christians in Nialijharan village, Keonjhar District, Odisha. Credit: Morning Star News
#India: Three Christians were murdered in their home in Nialijharan, Keonjhar District, Odisha on 25 January.
While the incident is being dismissed as a land dispute, the victimโs son told CSW the familyโs conversion had not been welcomed by their relatives.
More: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/24/p...
UN human rights chief raises alarm after drone strikes kill more than 50 civilians in Sudan www.reuters.com/world/africa... via @reuters.com
Suweida City by Shadi Alashkar is licensed under CC BY 2.0
#Syria: Five Druze civilians were killed by a policeman who opened fire on them whilst they were working in olive fields in Al-Matouna village in the countryside of Suwayda Province on 7 February.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/18/p...
#Sudan: The Coptic Community in Wad Diab Al Gaba in Northern State has been prevented by the local authority from worshipping in, or completing reconstruction of, their church building.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/17/p...
Sudan: RSF violations in capture of El Fasher amount to war crimes www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The #BoardofPeace 'raises the spectre of a potential world order where access to justice and the promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights are dependent on a nationโs wealth, its military capability, and its standing with the US president.'
Read more: forbinfull.org/2026/02/16/t...
The National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) has expressed concern regarding the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act.
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A police attack on a place of worship is a worrying sign of the erosion of civil and political rights in #Kenya
Read more in CSW's latest blog: forbinfull.org/2026/02/11/a...
#Nigeria: The Kano State authorities are reportedly seeking a court order to ensure that David Tarfa, who died on 28 January and was one of 8 children seized from the Du Merci orphanages in 2019 still held in a govt-run orphanage, to be buried as a Muslim.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/10/p...
#Nigeria: Over two hundred people were killed in terrorist attacks targeting remote villages in Kwara, Katsina and Benue states on the same day, as news emerged from Kaduna State of the release of all of the Christians abducted from churches in Kurmin Wali.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/06/p...
#Pakistan:
As the death toll from todayโs horrific suicide attack in #Islamabad continues to rise, CSW extends our deepest condolences to all those who have lost loved ones, and we hope and pray for a full recovery for those still fighting for their lives.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/06/p...
CSW is encouraged to hear #PepGuardiola speaking up about the situation in #Sudan and other injustices taking place around the world today.
We urge him to raise awareness of this conflict publicly, within his own club and across the #PremierLeague.
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โConscience is not the business of the stateโ: #Indiaโs anti-conversion legislation has turned suspicion into the default posture of the law forbinfull.org/2026/02/04/c...
CSW welcomes the UK governmentโs imposition of sanctions on Iranian individuals and organisations for their involvement in the deadly crackdown on civilian protests.
We encourage them to go further still and designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/03/p...
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CSW calls on the government of #Vietnam to dismiss the completely unfounded terrorism charges levelled against Dr Nguyแป
n ฤรฌnh Thแบฏng and Y Quynh Bdap, and to release the latter and all others detained or imprisoned in connection with their work to defend human rights.
www.csw.org.uk/2026/02/02/p...
CSW welcomes the EU's designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation in response to the Iranian governmentโs deadly recent crackdown on civilian protests.
โThose who operate through terror must be treated as terrorists.โ
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/01/30/p...
#Eritrea
CSW has learned that the majority of the 177 Eritrean Christians from proscribed churches who were freed from arbitrary detention by the Eritrean government in late 2025 were released conditionally.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/01/30/p...
#Nigeria:
The Nigerian Army reportedly rescued 11 kidnapping victims in the Kachia LGA of southern Kaduna State in a security operation on 26 January.
Meanwhile, abductions continue and 166 Christians taken from the Kurmin Wali community remain missing.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/01/30/p...
Digital Blasphemy Cases Are Entrapping Pakistanโs Most Vulnerable Communities www.csohate.org/2026/01/26/d...
The UN Human Rights Council renewed the mandates of the Independent Intl Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur on #Iran during a special session convened on 23 January, as news continues to emerge of the govtโs lethal response to nationwide protests.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2026/01/27/p...
Court halts RM37m payout to Pastor Kohโs family, citing โfinancial riskโ to govt www.malaymail.com/news/malaysi...
