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On June 7, 2022, the ECHR declared illegal the liquidation of the Administrative Center and 395 more legal entities of Jehovah's Witnesses, the ban on their activities and the seizure of property. It was illegal to ban...
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...