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...

Should I ban Jehovah's Witnesses? Â 113.595 voted online 267 voted by phone  http://echo.msk.ru/polls/1957622-echo/results.html 

The Zamoskvoreche court of Moscow on Thursday will examine the legality of the order of the Russian Ministry of Justice suspending the activity of the head organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, the press secretary...

 INFORMATION PACKETS (download)“Jehovah’s Witnesses of Moscow v. Russia”click on image to download it A summary of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in favor of the Moscow Community of Jehovah’s Witnesses

In Russia, the trial against Jehovah’s Witnesses continued this week into its fourth day, with the Ministry of Justice attempting to smear the Witnesses by calling former members of the organization to testify. These previous members were all associated with...