Courts handed at least 3 Jehovah's Witnesses long jail terms for exercising freedom of religion since September. A Samara court jailed Samvel Babayan for 7 years. A Saransk court jailed Ivan Neverov for 7 years,...

Armed National Guard personnel tortured 58-year-old Mikhail Proshenkov with a stun gun while searching his home on 3 September. Proshenkov was one of five Jehovah's Witnesses arrested during early-morning raids in Saratov. The National Guard...

On October 17, 2025, Samvel Babayan, 53, one of Jehovah's Witness from Samara, received a harsh sentence of 7 years of imprisonment. The believer has been imprisoned for his faith for over a year, despite...

On September 5, 2025, the Kurgan City Court imposed a fine of 300 thousand rubles on Irina Kamshilova. It took Judge Denis Cherkasov three months to find the believer guilty of extremism for her religious...

On March 20, 2025, 67-year-old retired police officer and Jehovah's Witness Valery Bailo died. This happened in a hospital in Novorossiysk, where he was hospitalized from a pretrial detention center. There, Valery waited for the...

On March 6, 2025, the judge of the Kaltan District Court of the Kemerovo Region, Aleksey Semerikov, sentenced Aleksandr Tsikunov to 6 years in a penal colony. The believer was taken into custody in the...

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...

From the point of view of the Russian judicial system, Jehovah’s Witnesses are more dangerous than any other religious group. Over 140 prisoners and record sentences of over 8 years. [caption id="attachment_9794" align="aligncenter" width="1392"] Jehovah’s...

On October 25, 2024, Judge Oksana Nazarova of the Pervomaisky District Court of Izhevsk sentenced Yevgeniy Stefanidin and Aleksandr Votyakov to six and six and a half years suspended, respectively. The court considered reading the...