Two Preachers in Indonesia Charged with Blasphemy

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image (L-R) Muhammed Kece, Yahya Waoni © MuhammedKece/YouTube, Hadith TV/YouTube Indonesian National Police have separately arrested and detained two clergymen on blasphemy charges. On August 25 Muhammad Kece, a Christian preacher, was arrested at his friend’s house in Bali for alleged blasphemy against Islam. Among other allegations, the authorities charged him with changing the word “Allah” in the Islamic oath to “Jesus.” He has been detained in a Jakarta detention center. A day later, Yahya Waloni, a Muslim imam, was arrested at his house in Jakarta after allegedly …

Read complete article

~	Kenyan doctors’ strike: the government keeps failing to hold up its end of the bargain

~	Humza Yousaf is fighting for his political life – but here’s why you shouldn’t expect a snap election in Scotland

~	Waste pickers play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution – insights from South Africa into how their voices can be heard

~	College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

~	South Africa’s constitution was set up as the bedrock of its democracy: it’s been challenged over last 30 years, but has held firm

~	‘Polite littering’ is a rubbish problem – here’s why the British approach to tackling clean ups is not working

~	TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier – here’s what the science actually says

~	Purple Hibiscus: Ibrahim Mahama’s Barbican installation wraps the brutalist building in bright cloth and reveals a hidden history

~	Liz Truss’s lessons on how not to be a prime minister

~	Focus on Rwanda’s safety is a distraction from the dangerous conditions for asylum seekers in the UK