Standing Firm With Jehovah on Their Side

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....

RUSSIA: Five years after Jehovah’s Witness ban, jailings continue

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...

Released from Russia, Jehovah’s Witness returns to Denmark

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...

Russia releases Jehovah’s Witness follower from prison

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...

Russian ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses hits the five-year mark

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...

Amnesty International asks Russia to free jailed JWs

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...

Five Years Ago: The “Liquidation” of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia

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...

Courageous and Victorious Despite Five-Year Ban in Russia

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...

Russian Court Nullifies Acquittal Of Jehovah’s Witness

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"...

Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses caught up in “extremist” law

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...