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- September 15th, 2025
Heavy prison sentence against Russian Jehovah’s Witness for ‘holding conversations in public places’
A Russian court has sentenced 55-year-old Vladimir Alushkin to six years’ imprisonment for supposed ‘extremist activities’, namely reading the Bible and practising his faith. The same Leninsky District Court in Penza passed two-year suspended sentences against five...
Banned in several countries, the Jehovah's Witnesses admittedly run a multi-million dollar film industry with the purpose of specifically reaching out to children. Despite being convicted in a district court for showing films that have...
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...
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...