Editing Religious abuse (section)

===Witch-hunts===
{{Further|Witch-hunt}}
{{Further|Witchcraft accusations against children in Africa}}

To this day, witch hunts, trials and accusations are still a real danger in some parts of the world. Trials result in violence against men, women and children, including murder.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/05/witches-feminism-books-kristin-j-sollee|title=Are witches the ultimate feminists?|last=Kelly|first=Kim|date=2017-07-05|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-12-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In [[The Gambia]], about 1,000 people accused of being witches were locked in government detention centers in March 2009, being beaten, forced to drink an unknown [[hallucinogenic]] potion, and confess to witchcraft, according to [[Amnesty International]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2009 |title=The Gambia: Hundreds accused of "witchcraft" and poisoned in government campaign |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2009/03/gambia-hundreds-accused-e2809cwitchcrafte2809d-and-poisoned-government-campaign-20/ |access-date=2017-12-05 |website=[[Amnesty International]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/19/gambia-witchcraft-hallucinogenics|title=Gambian state kidnaps 1,000 villagers in mass purge of 'witchcraft'|last=Rice|first=Xan|date=2009-03-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-12-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In Tanzania thousands of elderly Tanzanian women have been strangled, knifed to death and burned alive over the last two decades after being denounced as witches.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Migiro |first=Katy |date=21 March 2017 |title=Despite murderous attacks, Tanzania's 'witches' fight for land |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tanzania-women-landrights/despite-murderous-attacks-tanzanias-witches-fight-for-land-idUSKBN16S2HU |access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> Ritualistic abuse may also involve children accused of, and punished for, being purported witches in some [[Central Africa]]n areas. A child may be blamed for the illness of a relative, for example.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Vejan en África a 'niños brujos' |publisher=[[Reforma (newspaper)|Reforma]] |date=19 November 2007 |language=es}}</ref> Other examples include [[Ghana]], where alleged witches were banished to refugee camps,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitaljournal.com/article/312940|title=Ghana to send 'witches' banished to refugee camps back home|date=17 October 2011|access-date=25 January 2017|work=Digital Journal|author=Didymus, Johnthomas}}</ref> and the beating and isolation of children accused of being witches in [[Angola]].<ref>{{cite web |date=12 December 2006 |title="Witchcraft" an excuse for child abuse |url=http://www.irinnews.org/Report/62424/ANGOLA-Witchcraft-an-excuse-for-child-abuse |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103135340/http://www.irinnews.org/report/62424/angola-witchcraft-an-excuse-for-child-abuse |archive-date=2014-11-03 |access-date=25 January 2017 |work=[[IRIN News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Salopek |first=Paul |date=2004-03-28 |title=Children in Angola tortured as witches |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0403280349mar28-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-07-13 |title=Angola witchcraft's child victims |work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4677969.stm |url-status=dead |access-date=2017-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417074722/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4677969.stm |archive-date=2023-04-17}}</ref>