CHITA, Russia -- Several more Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Siberia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017. [caption id="attachment_6323" align="alignright" width="1023"]...

The Nizhnekamsk City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan will soon announce its verdict in the case involving Brothers Denis Filatov, Stanislav Klyuchnikov, and Dmitriy Yarchak. The prosecutor has yet to request a potential sentence....

Five years on from the 2017 ban on Jehovah's Witnesses, prosecutors have launched criminal cases on "extremism" charges against more than 600 individuals, of whom more than 200 have so far been convicted. Nearly 60...

A Danish Jehovah’s Witness has returned to Denmark after spending five years in a Russian prison under Moscow’s crackdown on the religious group [caption id="attachment_6295" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Dennis Christensen[/caption] COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A Danish...

COPENHAGEN, May 24 (Reuters) - A Danish adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses was released from a Russian prison on Tuesday after serving five years on extremism charges as part of Moscow's crackdown on the religious...

APRIL 20, 2022 marked five years since Russia’s systematic persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses began. Since then, some 400 of the Witnesses’ legal entities, including houses of worship, have been shut down. More than 1,740 homes...

Five years after the Russian Supreme Court (SC) banned the organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) in Russia, international human rights groups continued to call for the release of at least 80 JWs detained in Russian...

April 20, 2022, marks a sad anniversary for all those who care about religious liberty. On April 20, 2017, the Russian Supreme Court “liquidated” all the legal entities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian...

April 20, 2022, will mark the fifth anniversary of Russia’s unjust ban on the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russian authorities have intensified the persecution each year since the ban was established—at times even resorting to torture. Yet, as shown...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- A court in Russia has nullified the acquittal of a Jehovah's Witness and sent his case for retrial amid an ongoing crackdown on the followers of the religious group. [caption id="attachment_6222" align="aligncenter"...

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - In the early morning of Feb. 15, 2019, armed police and intelligence agents burst into Timofey Zhukov's home in Surgut, an oil town in western Siberia. They knocked him to...

Over the past five years, hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been subjected to raids, arrests and prosecution in Russia. Many others have fled – including one couple, Dmitrii and Nellia Antsybor, who flew to Mexico...

Europe's highest human rights court found the country has violated Jehovah’s Witnesses' rights to liberty and freedom of religion. [caption id="attachment_6074" align="aligncenter" width="901"] Larisa Vladimirovna Cheprunova and Mikhail Yuryevich Cheprunov in Russia. Photo courtesy of...

Russia’s mistreatment of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses more than a decade ago violated their “fundamental rights to freedom of religion and liberty,” the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_6068" align="aligncenter" width="878"] Members of...

A Siberian court jailed a Jehovah’s Witness on Wednesday despite a top Russian court’s recent ban on prosecuting worshippers for joint prayers, the religious organization said. Anatoly Gorbunov, 64, was found guilty of extremism and...

An appeal court has overturned the suspended sentences handed to three Jehovah's Witnesses. "We hope that the Kamchatka example will turn out to have an effect on other judges, and they will take the liberty...