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RUSSIA: Post-sentence: Curfews, regular registration, movement restrictions, job bans.

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...

Alleged leader of Crimean cell of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses put in detention

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...

Kremlin Moves Against The Jehovah’s Witnesses First On Russia’s Periphery – OpEd

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...

Russian Jehovah’s Witness Jailed for ‘Bible Talk’

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...

Russian Court Sentences Three Jehovah’s Witnesses To Prison

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...

Russia’s mysterious campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses

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...

Russia delivers harshest sentence yet in crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses

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...

Russia Jails Jehovah’s Witness Member For Record 8 Years

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...

Russian Court in Crimea Jails Jehovah’s Witness for 6 Years

A court in Russian-annexed Crimea on Thursday sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for organizing an extremist organisation, in the latest harsh sentence against the Christian movement. Crimea's Supreme Court at an...

Russia Hands Out Longest Jail Terms Yet to Jehovah’s Witnesses

A Russian court has handed the country’s longest prison sentence yet to a Jehovah’s Witness, the independent news website MediaZona reported Wednesday. More than two dozen Jehovah’s Witnesses have been sentenced and scores more are...