- Friday
- July 4th, 2025
In the first conviction deriving from the Supreme Court ban on all Jehovah's Witness activity, Aleksandr Solovyov was fined nearly a year's average local wages, although prosecutors had sought to jail him. Six more trials...
Russian security services have launched a series of raids against the homes and meeting places of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country’s far-eastern Siberian region, detaining several devotees. The actions are the latest in a...
On Sunday, March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. All 157 people on board were killed. Sadly, one of our sisters, Rosemary Mumbi, was among...
At least 23 Jehovah's Witnesses are in pre-trial detention, 28 under house arrest, and 42 under travel restrictions as more than 100 face "extremism"-related criminal charges. If convicted they could face up to 10 years'...
After 74 hearings over one year, an Oryol court jailed Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen for six years for organising a "banned extremist organisation", the first Jehovah's Witness in post-Soviet Russia sentenced to imprisonment. "We will...
The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Murmansk region completed the investigation of the criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the...
“This is complete nonsense, you need to carefully deal with this,†Vladimir Putin commented on theinclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the list of extremist organizations. The corresponding question was asked of him at a meeting...
Amid continuing police, FSB and Investigative Committee raids across Russia, 69 Jehovah's Witnesses are now facing criminal investigations. Of these, 25 are in detention, 9 under house arrest, and 30 under travel restrictions. Three trials...
To the Russian Federation Presidential CouncilFor the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Honorable Mr. Fedotov! Honorable members of the Human Rights Council!This open letter to you is a cry of desperation. People who are...