Week-ending 23 July 2021 On 19 July 2021 a court in Kirov in the Urals district fined three Jehovah's Witnesses for organising and financing an extremist group. The Russian Supreme…
Week-ending 2 July 2021 Source: RFE/RL On 30 June 2021 Blagoveshchensk City Court in Amur region sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses, Dmitry Golik and Aleksei Berchuk, to prison terms of seven…
10 June 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group - with a full translation of a letter from former prisoners of the Dachau concentration…
Week-ending 18 June 2021 On 17 June a court in Krasnoyarsk region sentenced a Jehovah's Witness (unnamed in the reports) to six years in prison for organising the activities of…
Week-ending 4 June 2021 This week five Jehovah's Witnesses were sentenced to real terms in prison, two were given suspended sentences and one was fined. A court in Krasnoyarsk sentenced…
Week-ending 16 April 2021 This week at the trial in Kemerovo of two Jehovah's Witnesses, Sergei Yavushkin and Aleksandr Bondarchuk, prosecutors asked for the defendants to be sentenced to terms…
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…