Five Years Ago, the Russian Supreme Court Liquidated All Legal Entities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What Has Transpired Throughout These Years?

On April 20, 2017, Povarskaya Street in Moscow was filled with mobile TV stations. Near the entrance to the Supreme Court building, journalists asked Jehovah's Witnesses how they plan to live after their legal entities...

A Kemerovo Region Disabled Person, Andrey Vlasov, Was Handed a Seven-Year Penal Colony Sentence for Holding Bible-Based Discussions

On May 23, 2022, the judge of the Central District Court of Prokopyevsk Pavel Kotykhov found 53-year-old Andrey Vlasov guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist community and sentenced him to 7 colony codes....

A Criminal Case Against Three Jehovah’s Witnesses Has Been Closed in Severodvinsk. No Crime Was Found

On May 17, 2022, the criminal case against Vladimir Teterin, Andrey Maksimovich and Sergey Potylitsyn was closed in the Arkhangelsk Region. Their criminal case was dismissed due to the absence of corpus delicti, the money...

European Court of Human Rights acquitted Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia

On June 7, 2022, the ECHR declared illegal the liquidation of the Administrative Center and 395 more legal entities of Jehovah's Witnesses, the ban on their activities and the seizure of property. It was illegal to ban...

Several Jehovah’s Witnesses Handed Prison Terms In Siberia As Crackdown Continues

CHITA, Russia -- Several more Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Siberia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017. [caption id="attachment_6323" align="alignright" width="1023"]...

Jehovah’s Witnesses are back at Project Stand after a two-year hiatus

On May 31, 2022, the Governing Body informed all Branch Committees that they may now resume all forms of public witnessing with the exception of the door-to-door ministry. Each Branch Committee will examine the local...

Protecting free speech: Tulare County residents reflect on impact of historic Supreme Court ruling

While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s — that is until the United...

Standing Firm With Jehovah on Their Side

The Nizhnekamsk City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan will soon announce its verdict in the case involving Brothers Denis Filatov, Stanislav Klyuchnikov, and Dmitriy Yarchak. The prosecutor has yet to request a potential sentence....