News: On the 7th of November, 2014, the Malaysian Court of Appeal reversed the Islamic law banning cross-dressing for Muslim transgenders. One of the judges who presided over the appeal case, judge Hishamuddin Yunus was quoted by AFP as saying that: "It (banning cross-dressing) has the effect of denying the appellants and other sufferers of GID (gender identify disorder) to move freely in public places... This is degrading, oppressive and…

Within the so-called National Dialogue initiated by President al-Bashir at the beginning of this year, through a presidential decree, national committees for community dialogue were formed to complement the comprehensive National Dialogue. The chairwoman of the Community Forces Committee in the community dialogue committees of the Sudanese Center for Media Services, Tabita Boutros...

Along the lines of what happened Sunday 11/09/2014 from the arrest of six Hizb ut Tahrir members for having placed a table to collect signatures as part of the campaign "Say STOP to the Judicial Persecutions against Hizb ut Tahrir" launched by the Hizb in the Wilayah of Turkey since September to lift the injustice against over 500 hundred Muslims in Turkey have been given a collective sentence of about…

News On the 7th November, the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights published a briefing that stated that Myanmar authorities were complicit in the trafficking and smuggling of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state. They described state security forces extracting payments from Rohingya fleeing the persecution of their regime, or from traffickers operating boats offshore in exchange for passage out to sea. There are even reports of Myanmar naval boats escorting…