News: Hidayatullah.com and the Citizen Daily reported a controversial statement from Raihan Diani - an activist and former chairwoman of the Democratic Aceh Women Organization (ORPAD) in a discussion in Jakarta, January 16. Diani accused the enforced Sharia law in Aceh often resulted in discrimination against Acehnese women. This accusation was conveyed in a discussion forum entitled "Sharia and Women Prosperity in Aceh" which took place in Bakoel Café, Cikini…

News Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Bishop, Dr Alex Malasusa pleaded with government leaders to ensure Tanzania remained a secular state. He said his Church was praying for government to adhere to the rule of law and hand over the government peaceful to successor in October this year. (The Citizen, 14 January 2015) Comment The secular concept emerged after a fierce struggle between the philosophers and intellectuals against the…

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Çiğdem Albasan wrote articles about women and education for the Koklu Degisim Magazine. On Friday the 5th of March 2010, more than 10 heavily armed anti-terror policemen stormed her house in Ankara in the early morning hours. Her husband Murat Albasan stood up against the arrest of his wife who was pregnant in her third month. Although there was no arrest warrant against him, he too was arrested. But, what…