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F18News: Russia – Jehovah’s Witnesses banned, property confiscated

Supreme Court declares Jehovah's Witness headquarters and local communities "extremist", bans all their activity immediately, and orders their property seized by state. Russia's estimated 170,000 Jehovah's Witnesses now risk criminal prosecution for "extremist activity" if...

Human Rights Watch Russia: Court Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses

(Moscow) – Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on April 20, 2017 that the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization should be closed down and no longer allowed to operate legally in Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling, which...

Russia bans Jehovah’s Witnesses after supreme court rules Christian sect ‘extremists’

Russia has banned Jehovah's Witnesses after the Supreme Court ruled the Christian sect to be an "extremist" group.“The Supreme Court has ruled to sustain the claim of Russia's ministry of justice and deem the 'Administrative Centre of Jehovah's...

The Supreme Court decided to liquidate the centralized religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia

13:15The courtroom of the Supreme Court is gradually filled with listeners. Feelings of difficulty with restrained excitement. The parties are deliberately preparing to speak in the debate.13:50Most of the seats in the hall are already occupied.14:09Hearings begin. Omelchenko...

All the secret will be revealed. The trial of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Supreme Court destroys the construction of “sectologists”

Jehovah's Witnesses throughout Russia have been for many years fixing flaws of "compromising evidence" in their liturgical buildings. Since 2012, such cases have been documented over 60, some recorded on video, posted on YouTube and...

Day 5: Report: the Supreme Court is hearing a case on the prohibition of religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses

9amIn front of the Supreme Court, people are more than ever crowded. The line began to line up from the night. Many specially arrived from different cities of Russia. As the weather in Moscow is cold, most are...

BBC Russia court considers Jehovah’s Witnesses ban

Russia's Supreme Court has begun hearing a government request to outlaw the Jehovah's Witnesses and declare it an extremist organisation.The justice ministry has already placed its headquarters near St Petersburg on a list of extremist...

Consuelo Madrigal: “I do not consider Jehovah’s Witnesses to be dangerous at all”

The Attorney General of Spain (until 2016) speaks of limiting the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses under the pretext of combating extremism."In Spain, they [Jehovah's Witnesses] have been registered with the Register of Religious Organizations of...

U.S. says Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses ban is latest sign Moscow views independent religions as a threat

The Russian justice ministry’s call for the country’s Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters to be shut down represents an attempt to “eliminate the legal existence” of the religion, said the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)....

Russian scholar supports Jehovah’s Witnesses

Maksim Leonardovich Shevchenko is the president of the Center for Strategic Studies of Religion and Politics in the Modern World and a member of the Council for Development of Civil society and Human Rights under...