- Wednesday
- September 16th, 2026
Although the number of known cases is still small – 12 individuals – the revocation of Jehovah's Witnesses' Russian citizenship has increased in frequency over the last year, the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses noted...
Courts have twice fined Zhangazy Biimbetov, a Jehovah's Witness from Oskemen, 2 months' average wages for sharing his faith. In July he challenged the constitutionality of the ban on and punishments for sharing faith. The...
In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Finland (application no. 31172/19) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: no violation of Article 6 (right to a...
In two judgments rendered on February 22, the Strasbourg judges decided that the human rights of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses had been violated. On February 22, 2022, Russia was hit by two judgments of the European...