13:15The courtroom of the Supreme Court is gradually filled with listeners. Feelings of difficulty with restrained excitement. The parties are deliberately preparing to speak in the debate.13:50Most of the seats in the hall are already occupied.14:09Hearings begin. Omelchenko...

Jehovah's Witnesses throughout Russia have been for many years fixing flaws of "compromising evidence" in their liturgical buildings. Since 2012, such cases have been documented over 60, some recorded on video, posted on YouTube and...

9amIn front of the Supreme Court, people are more than ever crowded. The line began to line up from the night. Many specially arrived from different cities of Russia. As the weather in Moscow is cold, most are...

Russia's Supreme Court has begun hearing a government request to outlaw the Jehovah's Witnesses and declare it an extremist organisation.The justice ministry has already placed its headquarters near St Petersburg on a list of extremist...

The Attorney General of Spain (until 2016) speaks of limiting the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses under the pretext of combating extremism."In Spain, they [Jehovah's Witnesses] have been registered with the Register of Religious Organizations of...

The Russian justice ministry’s call for the country’s Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters to be shut down represents an attempt to “eliminate the legal existence” of the religion, said the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)....

Maksim Leonardovich Shevchenko is the president of the Center for Strategic Studies of Religion and Politics in the Modern World and a member of the Council for Development of Civil society and Human Rights under...

â–  Alexander Soldatov, a religious scholar:Alas, little is believed that the outcome of this, so to speak, the court may not be a foregone conclusion. But at any outcome, the Ministry of Justice disgraced itself...

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