The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH and OMCT joint venture) is very concerned with the imprisonment and trial before military courts of Israeli conscientious objectors.

Conscientious objector Şendoğan Yazıcı has been sentenced to five months and 18 days in prison for allegedly "inciting disobedience to the law" under Article 217 of the Turkish Penal Code. The ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The concept of conscientious objection dates back centuries and is rooted in the principle that individuals should not be forced to act against their deeply held moral or religious ...

Conscientious objectors in Turkey continue to face cycles of prosecution, sentencing, and re-prosecution for the same acts of refusing compulsory military service. While earlier cases often resulted ...

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu was jailed for three days on Thursday for refusing to complete his military service. Karapasaoglu appeared in military court in northern ...

CHICAGO – In the desert, he realized Humvees don’t uphold the Constitution: People do. Twenty years later, Iraq War veteran Aaron Hughes continues spreading his realization that soldiers can better ...

On May 15, the International Conscientious Objection Day, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) published its Annual Report “Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe 2023 ...

Conscientious objection to military service does not necessarily constitute an obstacle to criminal extradition proceedings, Germany's top court ruled on Wednesday. According to the Federal Court of ...

The price for lawyers’ freedom to act without fear or favour is that declarations of conscientious objection to clients or cases cannot be made, a former lord chancellor said yesterday. Alex Chalk KC, ...

The principle of conscientious objection will not be legalised in Slovakia for the time being in that independent MP Vladimír Palko told the Speaker of Parliament Pavol Paška on June 17 that he and ...