FARAG FODA (1946-1992) was a prominent Egyptian professor, writer, columnist, and human rights activist. He was assassinated on 8 June 1992 by members of the Islamist group El Gama'a El Islamya after being accused of blasphemy by a committee of scholars (ulama) at al-Azhar.

MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER OF SET MY PEOPLE FREE

WITHOUT FREEDOM TO CHANGE RELIGION there is no religious freedom. Apostasy and blasphemy laws in Islam strip the individual from the right to have freedom of thought, religion and conscience, and deprive the ex-Muslim the right to exist in an Islamic state.
Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

𝙎𝙚𝙩 𝙈𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙮 𝙇𝙖𝙬𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙐 𝙩𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮
5 MAY 2021, GNOSJÖ SWEDEN | Several parliamentarians denounced the blasphemy law in Pakistan and especially in how it incarcerates individuals arbitrarily and restricts their freedom of expression and indirectly their right to…

THE APOSTASY LAW: FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF SUFFERING - Kamal Fahmi shares his heart and first-hand accounts of those who have lived in lands with an apostasy law. He explains how the law has negatively impacted or altered major life decisions or inflicted great physical pain on converts to Christianity from Islam.

COUNTRIES WHERE APOSTASY AND BLASPHEMY LAWS are applied today. Click on map to see a larger view.

INTERVIEW WITH KAMAL FAHMI, founder of Set My People Free. Kamal is a Sudanese national. He speaks on what abolishing the apostasy law means for the people of Sudan. (video)

“As representatives of the international community, we stand together in support of the interconnected freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, and expression.”