Fundamentalism and its impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 2016, para. 57
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- Saudi Arabia places severe restrictions on the practice of religions other than the Wahhabi variant of Sunni Islam. According to one civil society report, "public non-Muslim places of worship are not allowed, and the right of non-Muslims to practise their religion in private is not fully protected". Blasphemy (deviation from the State's form of Islam) and apostasy (renunciation of Islam) are criminalized, with the latter carrying the death penalty; these crimes and others have been used against activists who criticize State policy (see A/HRC/32/53, case SAU 11/2015). It is also considered a criminal act of terrorism for an individual or association to call for atheist thought in any form, or to call into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion". It is worth noting in this context that a 2012 Gallup poll found that 5 per cent of the population of Saudi Arabia identifies as atheist, while another 19 per cent identifies as "not religious".
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Année
- 2016
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/36, para. 57.
- Paragraph focus
- Religious fundamentalism
- Paragraph number
- 57
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