Impunity for blasphemy: While the British Criminal and Justice and Immigration Act of 2008 abolished blasphemy laws in England and Wales, it took Scotland another 12 years...
First tell us something about your childhood years. I was born in Pakistan. When I was seven, my parents moved to the USA, I still remember learning...
The Freethinkers Association of Switzerland has filed charges against the Bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, Charles Morerod for assisting offenders under Article 305...
The Swiss Freethinkers interpret the clear result of the 9 February 2020 referendum as a sign that the religious fundamentalists who campaigned for a no vote largely...
The Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and his lawyer Waleed Abulkhair have been detained in Saudi Arabia for six years. Badawi because he stood up for humanist values...
The author Salman Rushdie and the director Barbara Miller received the Swiss Freethinker Award 2019 in the full Rothausbar in Zurich this Friday evening. Rushdie and Miller...
The Freethinker Prize 2019 will be awarded to author Salman Rushdie and director Barbara Miller for their artistic work and their advocacy to an enlightened world, for...
Several Western states have blasphemy bans. While convictions are rare, these anachronistic penal articles should nevertheless be repealed. Only their deletion assures the population the right to...
