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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...
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Russian state TV reported 31 people are dead and more than 100 others were injured in an explosion at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow.In a post on its website, the Russian Investigative Committee is blaming the...
JUDGE FOR YOURSELFWhy were these publications declared extremist?On December 8, 2009, the publications listed below were declared to be “extremist materials” by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Below are statements found in the...
On January 8, 2011, in the village of Pravokumskoye (Stavropol) a report was filed with the police regarding the actions of a local Russian Orthodox priest who spoke offensively to women he realized were Jehovah’s...
A court in the Siberian town of Gorno-Altaisk will resume on Tuesday hearings in the trial against the leader of a local branch of Jehovah's Witnesses for circulating extremist materials, the court's spokesman said.Alexander Kalistratov,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When armed Russian security officers forced their way into Alexander Kalistratov's home, he hardly imagined they were after his books.The local leader of a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Siberia now faces...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia?The harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia continued in November 2010 with several acts of vandalism against their houses of worship. In the Irkutsk Region and Krasnodar Territory, arson attacks were carried out...
RUSSIA: First post-Soviet criminal trial of Jehovah's Witness "ludicrous"The first post-Soviet criminal trial in Russia of a Jehovah's Witness for sharing beliefs with others – which may conclude as soon as 17 December – is...
Two tragic events have attracted public attention to the way the Jehovah’s Witnesses denomination operates in Russia. While members of the group allege discrimination by the government, many Russians, including religion experts, are hostile to...
An 85-year-old veteran of the Second World War is the first Russian Jehovah's Witness known to have been prosecuted for "production and distribution of extremist materials", Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The prosecution is...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—More than 3,000 deaf people from all corners of the country attended a special meeting earlier this month and learned that for the first time a complete translation of the Bible will be...
Brazen predawn attack on house of worship in Kabardino-BalkariaA wave of harassment unleashed in Russia leads to dramatic consequencesNARTKALA, Kabardino-Balkaria—Unidentified masked assailants beat up the watchmen inside a place of worship, and after the watchmen...