- Thursday
- December 18th, 2025
As Jehovah's Witnesses challenge the Supreme Court liquidation of all their organisations as "extremist", their Centre is closed, police have sealed some Kingdom Halls and bank accounts are frozen. Individuals continue to face fines, children...
 On the 30-day deadline, an appeal was lodged against the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia of April 20, 2017 to liquidate all registered organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The full text of the...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan—On May 2, 2017, a court in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, sentenced Teymur Akhmedov to a five-year prison sentence for performing his peaceful Bible education work, characterized by the court as “inciting religious discordâ€...
Myth: The Supreme Court of the RF banned the Jehovah's Witnesses. Fact: The Jehovah's Witnesses are citizens of Russia, whom it is impossible to ban according to current legislation. The Supreme Court banned (more precisely, liquidated)...
Under the guise of battling “extremism,†Russian authorities decided last month to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization. The decision to prohibit the organization, seize its property, and shut down its operations came in the...
The Moscow Patriarch distances itself from the government policy but at the same time terms it  "a positive gesture". The ban also concerns Catholics, who fear "new forms of discrimination". The Russian "symphony" between the...
Jehovah's Witness prisoner of conscience, pensioner and cancer-sufferer Teymur Akhmedov was jailed in Astana on 2 May for five years and banned for a further three years from conducting "ideological/preaching activity". He denied KNB secret...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked the Russian President Vladimir Putin to work for the protection of human rights in his country. During her visit to Sochi, the chancellor named the rights of homosexuals in Chechnya...
CLAIMPresident Trump offered asylum to Russian Jehovah's Witnesses.RATING FALSEORIGINShortly after a Russian court labeled Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group in April 2017, a series of fake news articles were published claiming that President Trump had offered asylum...