On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered together in Jakarta, Indonesia to protest against attacks by radical Islamists on Christians.
The mostly Christian group were demanding that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono intervene to prevent hardline Muslims groups from attacking minority faiths. Many of the protestors carried Indonesian flags at half mast. The group accused the government of violating the constitutional rights of minority groups to freely practice their religion.
In the first six months of 2010 there were 28 cases of reported religious freedom violations, compared to only 18 reported in 2009 for the entire year.
The violations include the forced closure of churches as well as attacks such as torching.