On November 20, 2025, at 7 a.m., law enforcement officers came with searches at four addresses of Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Kansk. After that, five believers were taken for interrogation. A man and...

According to the Monitoring review of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) from July to September 2025, at least 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses have been convicted for their faith in the temporarily occupied Crimea. On August...

Valeriy Knyazev and Indus Talipov became the oldest of those imprisoned for believing in Jehovah God—on November 12, 2025, Judge Rustam Tagirov found them guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and sentenced...

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...