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• The ripple effect of the US ruling on corporations' religious freedom

  Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that companies could refuse contraceptive cover to employees. That decision has empowered the religious right wing.

• Mubarak Bala faces death threats following release from Nigerian psychiatric ward

  Bala had been detained in Kano state after declaring himself an atheist, prompting international appeals for his release

• British Medical Journal comes out in support of Assisted Dying legislation

  Support from leading voice in academic medicine is significant in campaign for reform

• Nigerian atheist "drugged on a daily basis"

  A Q&A with the blogger campaigning for Mubarak Bala's release.

• Should companies have the right to religious freedom?

  The US Supreme Court has upheld the right of a corporation to refuse to pay for contraception as part of healthcare plans. Campaigners fear the ruling could open the door to greater discrimination and further erosion of reproductive rights

• Tell MAMA clarifies the meaning of "anti-Muslim prejudice"

• Nigerian atheist detained in psychiatric ward

  Mubarak Bala, of Kano state, is held after declaring he does not believe in God.

• Sudanese Christian woman, on death row for apostasy, is released

  Meriam Ibrahim has been freed after international outcry.

• A blow to free speech in Egypt as Al-Jazeera journalists are sentenced

  Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed sentenced under terrorism charges in Egypt

• How many Syrian refugees has the UK taken in? Just 24