Week-ending 2 April 2021 This week a court in Crimea, annexed by Russia, jailed Viktor Stashevsky, a Jehovah's Witness, for six and a half years for organising the activities of…
Week-ending 26 February 2021 On 24 February 2021 a court in Abakan, Khakassia, sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses to prison terms on account of their faith. Roman Baranovsky was sentenced to…
Week-ending 12 February 2021 Photo of Aleksandr Ivshin: Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia On 10 February Aleksandr Ivshin (pictured, left), a 63-year-old Jehovah's Witness, was sentenced to seven and a half…
Week-ending 18 December 2020 This week in Novosibirsk a court sentenced Yury Savelyev to six years in prison for 'organising an extremist group' on 16 December 2020. Meanwhile the alleged…
24 November 2020 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of the NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] 24 November 2020,…
Week-ending 4 December 2020 Pictured: Sergei Polyakov, Anastasia Polyakova, Dinara Diusekeeva and Gaukhar Bektemirova. Photo: Website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia A court in Omsk convicted four Jehovah's Witnesses on…
Week-ending 27 November 2020 This week the Investigative Committee arrested several Jehovah's Witnesses and conducted searches of their properties in more than 20 regions of Russia. A member of the…
Week-ending 9 October 2020 On 8 October 2020 in the city of Ulyanovsk six Jehovah's Witnesses were given suspended sentences ranging from two and a half to four years, with…
Week-ending 4 September 2020 On Wednesday, 2 September 2020, a court in Russia's Siberian city of Kemerovo sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses to four years in prison each, RFE/RL reported. Sergei Britvin…
Week-ending 3 July 2020 Dennis Christensen (behind the windows) talks with his interpreter at the Zheleznodorzhy District Court in Oryol, January 28, 2019 © 2019 Human Rights Watch Prosecutors in Russia…