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Moscow, May 2, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church sees Jehovah's Witnesses as a dangerous sect and has supported the ban imposed on it in Russia."This is a sect, totalitarian and harmful at that. I am well...
Six days of hearings took Russian Supreme Court to rule on the claim of the Ministry of Justice of the liquidation and ban the activities of all the 396 registered Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia."When the...
America must never become numb to human rights violations, especially the suffering caused by infringing on religious liberty.Citizens can start by protecting America’s first freedom at home and championing it abroad.This week, Russia’s supreme court...
For the first time, Russia has been officially included among the worst countries in the world for religious freedom because of its ongoing crackdown against religious minorities, foreign missionaries and evangelists and last week's ban...
The claim filed by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on 15 March before the Supreme Court is the latest crackdown on, and a further escalation of the harassment and judicial persecution suffered...
Hardly anyone noticed last week when the Russian supreme court last week suppressed the Jehovah’s Witnesses there and seized all the group’s property. We were all too busy worrying about fascism in France or war in Korea. But it...
A few hours after the Russian Supreme Court announced the decision to liquidate the center of Jehovah's Witnesses, late on the evening of April 20, 2017, a group of men drove up to two passenger cars to...
MOSCOW, Russia – The Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned as an extremist group in a Thursday Supreme Court decision that observers feared signalled a further step back for religious liberty.“For Jehovah's Witnesses, this is going...
The Foreign Office has condemned a decision by the Russian Supreme Court to label Jehovah's Witnesses "extremists."Baroness Anelay, the foreign office minister with responsibility for human rights, said the judgement was alarming.She said that the...