Month: January 2025

Two Elderly Women From Khabarovsk Received Suspended Sentences. The Court Considered Talking About the Bible to Be Extremism

The Khabarovsk District Court completed the retrial of the criminal case of two Jehovah's Witnesses on January 20, 2025. Judge Kira Kirina sentenced pensioners Lyubov Kocherova, 66, and Lyubov Ovchinnikova, 66, to 5 years and...

Jehovah’s bomber: decision on charges pending

At the end of May 2024, the 55-year-old bomber who terrified Jehovah's Witnesses in Styria was caught. The investigation by the Graz public prosecutor's office has now been completed - charges could soon be brought...

TURKMENISTAN: First conscientious objector punishment since 2021

On 18 December 2024, the regime imposed a punishment on a conscientious objector to compulsory military service for the first known time since 2021, when 16 jailed conscientious objectors were freed under amnesty. On 18...