For the first time since the Supreme Court ban on Jehovah's Witnesses as "extremist" in 2017, a Vladivostok court yesterday (22 November) issued an acquittal. Dmitry Barmakin walked free after the Judge cited 28 October...

Courts have jailed four Jehovah's Witnesses for eight years each so far in 2021 for exercising freedom of religion or belief, one in Blagoveshchensk and three in Astrakhan, equalling the term a Dagestan court handed...

Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the criminal prosecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses for joint worship, potentially putting an end to the law enforcement practice of jailing believers for prayer sessions. The ruling could also affect the...

Four Russian members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses received stiff prison terms Monday in what the American-based movement calls the “longest, harshest” sentences imposed on its believers since the 2017 designation of the group as “extremists.”...

Jehovah's Witnesses continue to be tortured, and Russia is not following its UN Convention against Torture obligations to punish the perpetrators. After one victim complained, they were amazed "that it was the very same investigator...

A court in the city of Volgograd in southwestern Russia sentenced Jehovah’s Witnesses to more than 6 years in prison each on extremism charges Thursday, the religious organization said in a statement. The Traktorozavodsky district...

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Three organizers of underground meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses cells, recognized as an extremist organization...

Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims jailed on "extremism"-related charges for exercising freedom of religion or belief face years of restrictions once the sentence ends. With sudimost (the state of being a convicted person with an active...

A court in Simferopol, Crimea, on Tuesday placed alleged organizer of the Yalta cell of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious organization banned in Russia as extremist, in detention, according to the Investigative Committee. The man was...

When Stalin defeated Trotsky for the leadership of the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, all of the general secretary’s victories in the first years were in the periphery of the country where in many cases Stalin...

A longtime Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to prison in southern Russia this week for taking part in Bible discussions, the religious organization said Friday. Vasily Meleshko, 60, and his wife Zoya had been practicing...

A court in southern Russia has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to prison for belonging to the banned religious group, in the latest persecution against its members. The Leninskiy District Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Arsen Avanesov...

MOSCOW -- In a bright, spotless apartment in a Moscow suburb, a small circle of people sat around a table in December 2019. Bowls of candies and teapots were set out, along with salads. The...

The United States on Thursday condemned Russia for handing down its harshest sentence yet on Jehovah’s Witnesses amid the Kremlin’s crackdown on those who practice the Christian denomination. [caption id="attachment_5533" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Aleksey Berchuk was...

A Russian court Wednesday sentenced two members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to seven and eight years in prison, the US-based religious movement said, accusing Moscow of setting a “new record for cruelty.” Moscow outlawed the...