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…
Wee-ending 5 June 2020 Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group: 'In a shocking escalation of repression in occupied Crimea, a Russian-controlled court has revoked the fine imposed upon Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness Artem…
Week-ending 17 April 2020 Six members of Jehovah’s Witnesses banned in Russia face trial A court in the city of Ulyanovsk will consider a criminal case against six members of…
Week-ending 6 March 2020 Crimea: Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years in a penal colonyThe Russian authorities today sentenced a man in Russian-occupied Crimea to six years in prison simply…
Week-ending 21 February 2020 Eight Jehovah’s Witnesses Charged With Extremism In Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region Russian authorities in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia have charged eight Jehovah’s Witnesses with…
Week-ending 10 January 2020 Rachel Denber, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch: “For Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, practicing their faith means risking their freedom. There is…