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- November 13th, 2025
Last April, a ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court banned all Jehovah’s Witnesses organizations throughout the country, arguing the religious group to be extremist.On Friday, Murmansk regional authorities’ newspaper Murmanski Vestnik reports about raids made by FSB and...
A preliminary hearing into a criminal case against Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen, a 46-year old Danish citizen charged with extremism, was adjourned shortly after resuming in Russia's central city of Oryol.Judge Aleksei Rudnev adjourned the...
 At least until August 1, 2018, the detention of Dennis Christensen, a Dane who has been detained for about 9 months in the remand prison because of his religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, has been prolonged. The...
The Sestrotretsky District court of St. Petersburg has ruled not to proceed with an appeal against confiscation of property of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, banned in Russia, valued at 881.5 million rubles (about $15.5 million),...
On December 14, 2017, Russian authorities broke into the Kolomyazhskiy Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, cordoned off the building, and took control of the property. None of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the hall were injured during...
St. Petersburg. 25 December. Interfax - The administration of the North-West Federal Medical Research Center named after VAAlmazov (FGBU NMIC) intends to re-equip the former large site for worship services of Jehovah's Witnesses in St....
December 20, 2017Go to the bottom of this pageCollapse14:00The hearings continue in the historic building, an architectural monument of federal significance. In it from 1835 to 1918 there was the Imperial College of Law, graduates of...
Following the Supreme Court ban on all Jehovah's Witness activity – in force since July - Regional Justice Ministry branches are preparing to sell off their confiscated property. Military call-up offices have denied several army...
On December 1, 2017, the European Court of Human Rights found the complaint of Jehovah's Witnesses acceptable, decided to consider it as a matter of priority and ordered the Russian Federation to submit its explanations...