Religious persecution
Persecution based on religious belief
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| August 9 2024 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Rizwan Ali, an ISIS operative, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) while planning an attack in New Delhi.
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| March 20 2024 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Special forces arrest ISIS India chief Haris Farooqi and an associate while attempting to cross from Bangladesh to India, with police revealing plans for sabotage activities and IED attacks.
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| March 25 2020 | ISIS-Haqqani network gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 25 worshippers and wounding at least 8 others. |
| February 2020 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind begins publishing the pro-IS propaganda magazine Sawt al-Hind.
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| 2019 | Pew Research Center released a report indicating that government restrictions and social hostilities toward religion have risen in 187 countries, highlighting a global trend of increasing religious persecution. |
| June 2019 | The Sobane Da massacre takes place as a Fulani retaliation for the earlier Ogossagou massacre. |
| May 2019 | Saudi Arabian police conducted a second raid on predominantly Shia villages in the al-Qatif Governorate. |
| May 11 2019 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Islamic State – Khorasan Province announces the creation of Wilayah al-Hind (India Province) on Amaq News Agency following clashes in Jammu and Kashmir where ISJK leader Ishfaq Ahmad Sofi was killed.
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| April 2019 | Saudi Arabian government executed 37 citizens, with 33 being from the minority Shia community, convicted after what they claimed were unfair trials for protest-related offenses. |
| March 2019 | The Ogossagou massacre occurs, where Dogon militia attacks Fulani people, leading to significant inter-ethnic violence. |
| January 2019 | Saudi Arabian police raided predominantly Shia villages in the al-Qatif Governorate, continuing systematic persecution of Shia Muslims. |
| 2018 |
Persecution of Rastafari
A viral video showed high school wrestler Andrew Johnson having his dreadlocks forcibly cut to compete in a wrestling match, sparking a civil rights investigation into referee Alan Maloney.
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| 2018 | FBI statistics revealed that 57.8% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the United States were committed against Jews, representing the majority of such incidents. |
| 2018 | The United States published an annual report on religious freedom and persecution, detailing violations of religious freedom in approximately 75% of the world's 195 countries. |
| 2017 | Over 700,000 Rohingya refugees were sent abroad due to ongoing persecution. |
| April 2017 | The Supreme Court of Russia labels Jehovah's Witnesses an extremist organization, banning their activities and ordering the confiscation of their assets. |
| 2016 | Rohingya genocide begins, resulting in over 25,000 deaths through the present time. |
| 2016 | The Dogon militia Dan Na Ambassagou is created to defend the Dogon people against perceived threats from Fulani groups and Islamic terrorist groups. |
| February 2016 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Islamic State Jammu & Kashmir (ISJK/ISISJK) branch begins operations in Jammu and Kashmir and rest of India.
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| 2015 |
Islamic State – Hind Province
Shafi Armar and his brother Sultan Armar are killed during the Syrian Civil War, though their deaths were only confirmed in 2019.
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| April 15 2015 |
Persecution of Rastafari
Sacramental use of cannabis became legally recognized in Jamaica as part of Rastafari religious practices.
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| 2014 | Chinese government under Xi Jinping begins systematic persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, leading to mass internment of over one million Muslims in secretive camps. |
| 2014 | A symposium on law and religion was held where Michelle Mack highlighted the staggering frequency and severity of religious persecution worldwide. |
| August 2014 | Sinjar massacre occurs, with the Islamic State killing thousands of Yazidis in a devastating act of religious violence and ethnic cleansing. |
| February 28 2013 | Following the sentencing of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to death for war crimes, Hindus in Bangladesh were attacked, with properties looted, houses burned, and temples desecrated. |
| 2012 | During the Ramu violence in Bangladesh, a 25,000-strong Muslim mob destroyed at least twelve Buddhist temples and fifty homes, falsely claiming a Buddhist man had desecrated a Quran on Facebook. |
| September 2012 |
Persecution of Rastafari
Doug Darrell was found 'not guilty' by a jury in a trial, exercising the right of jury nullification regarding his marijuana cultivation.
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| January 2 2012 | A Hindu worship center in New York City was firebombed in an act of religious targeting. |
| 2011 | Syrian Civil War begins, leading to renewed persecution of Druze by Islamic extremists, continuing the historical pattern of religious violence against the Druze community. |
| 2011 | Hundreds of Egyptian Copts are killed in sectarian clashes, with numerous homes, churches, and businesses destroyed. |
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