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Pakistan Delays Professor's Trial for Blasphemy
February 07, 2018
Human Rights Watch has published an article criticizing Pakistan's prolongation of a blasphemy case against university professor Junaid Hafeez for alleged comments posted on social media platform Facebook as one example of the more general abuse of the law used to jail and sentence to death people exercising their right to freedom of expression.
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CoE Organizes Training on Migrant Integration in Schools
February 07, 2018
The Council of Europe (CoE) is planning a training session in Athens on the inclusion of migrants and refugees in the mainstream education system, teaching educators principles of "non-discrimination, tolerance, and good practices in the integration process."
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EU Agency Expresses Concerns on Migration Restrictions
February 07, 2018
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has issued a report identifying concerns arising during its review of the fundamental rights implications of migration policies in the EU over the last two years, including "strict border management," "restrictive" procedures related to asylum applications, and the detention of migrants.
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Taliban Social Media Highlights Afghan Jihadi Training Camps
February 06, 2018
The Afghan Taliban are ramping up their use of social media to showcase the existence of jihadi training camps throughout the country that combine radical Islamist indoctrination with training for jihadi suicide operations and other terrorist activities and highlight the regional reach of the Taliban across Southwest Asia.
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Syrian Jihadists Continue War with Downing of Russian Jet
February 06, 2018
The Syrian jihadist group that is a hybrid of al-Qaeda militant organizations committed to the building a sharia state grounded in Syria's northwest province of Idlib, now known as Hayat Tahrir al Sham (the Assembly for the Liberation of the Levant), used a shoulder-fired missile to down a Russian fighter jet involved in expelling jihadist groups from Syrian territory.
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