Month: June 2016

Uzbekistan – Three-year imprisonment for religious literature

Stanislav Kim could be jailed for up to three years if convicted of having "illegal" religious literature in his home in Urgench. In Bukhara, two Jehovah's Witnesses were jailed for ten days and, with 28...

Haitian Government Awards Witnesses for Helping the Disabled

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The Office of the Secretary of State for the Integration of People with Disabilities in Haiti (BSEIPH) presented the Christian Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Haiti with an Accessibility Award, which recognizes organizations that...

Russian Supreme Court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses branch

MOSCOW, June 9 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses of Belgorod as extremist organization, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.In February 2016, the Belgorod Regional Court has granted a lawsuit...

Uzbekistan – Large fines for “illegal” religious literature

Uzbekistan continues raids, large fines and confiscation of "illegal" religious literature, at least 18 Protestants and 11 Jehovah's Witnesses being fined up to 60 times the minimum monthly salary. Asked whether people have freedom of...

AZERBAIJAN: Fines for religious meetings “correct”?

The judge who upheld a large fine on a Jehovah's Witness for attending a worship meeting rejects the victim's argument that the fine violates the European Convention on Human Rights, telling Forum 18 his "decision...