What comes to your mind when you hear of May Day? Parades and demonstrations? Maypole dancing? A day off work?DEPENDING on where you live, completely different views of May Day may come to mind. But...

 A huge bilboard in Russia as a one of a series of rejections of the Truth, inspired by clergy and government.    

AKHTUBINSK, Russia—On February 17, 2012, the Akhtubinsk District Court, in the southern Volga region of Russia, began hearing a criminal case against Yelena Grigorieva, a 44-year-old mother and grandmother. During the first court session, the...

Since July 2011, "we have not been able to pray and worship together", an Ahmadi Muslim complained to Forum 18 News Service. Kyrgyzstan's State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA) has denied registration – or the...

AKHTUBINSK, Russia— Yelena Grigorieva is one of many individuals targeted in an official campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout Russia. On December 20, 2011, local investigator A. Gluschenko served 43-year-old Mrs. Grigorieva with an unjust indictment...

GORNO-ALTAYSK, December 22 - RAPSI. The Altai Republic Supreme Court revoked on Thursday the sentence of the head of a local branch of Jehovah's Witnesses who was earlier convicted of religious extremism, RIA Novosti reported...

CHITA, Russia—A married couple in the Siberian city of Chita is now the target of baseless criminal charges brought by Russian authorities.On December 22, 2011, court proceedings are due to begin in the city of...

RUSSIA: "This isn't about freedom of conscience or censorship"Russian state censorship increasingly extended nationwide in November to cover Jehovah's Witness websites – and possibly also Hare Krishna sms announcements, Forum 18 News Service has learnt....

 GORNO-ALTAYSK, Russia—An appeal hearing contesting the criminal conviction of Aleksandr Kalistratov will be heard by the Supreme Court of the Altay Republic on December 22, 2011. Charged with inciting religious hatred, Kalistratov, one of Jehovah’s...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—In a clandestine hearing, the Makarov District Court (Sakhalin region) found nine publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses, including a tract entitled Comfort for the Depressed, to be extremist. The copyright owner of the publications...

A regional court in Russia’s Altai region found the local head of the Jehovah's Witnesses guilty of extremism on Thursday and sentenced him to 100 hours of community service.The Jehovah's Witnesses is an international religious...

Authorities’ religious intolerance and harassment reminiscent of the Soviet eraCHEBOKSARY, Russia— For the first time in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, Russian citizens who are Jehovah’s Witnesses are now being arrested and...

After accusations, trials and physical attacks, street protests now target the JW. Slogans and banners stigmatize the community as an extremist sect.Moscow - After house raids, court trials for extremism and physical aggression now the...

A Jehovah’s Witness leader has been charged with inciting religious hatred, local investigators said on Wednesday.The coordinator of the city’s Jehovah's Witness church, estimated to have 90 followers, is accused of distributing extremist materials and...