Jehovah’s Witnesses
Oct. 26 2021, 1:39 pm
RFE/RL: More Jehovah’s Witnesses handed lengthy prison terms in Russia
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of Astrakhan has sentenced four Jehovah’s Witnesses to lengthy prison terms amid an ongoing crackdown of the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 25 2021, 10:31 am
RFE/RL: Russian court sentences 5 Jehovah’s Witnesses to prison
A Russian court has sentenced five Jehovah’s Witnesses to between six and six-and-a-half years in prison in the latest crackdown on the religious …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
July 19 2021, 3:12 pm
RFE/RL: Russia continues campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses, fines three for activities
A court in the Urals city of Kirov has fined three Jehovah’s Witnesses on charges of organizing and financing the religious group that Russia labeled …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
June 30 2021, 6:08 pm
RFE/RL: Two Jehovah’s witnesses sentenced to lengthy prison terms in Russia amid crackdown
Two members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed lengthy prison terms in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk amid an ongoing crackdown …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
May 14 2021, 6:00 pm
RFE/RL: Russia’s FSB spied on Jehovah’s Witnesses in bathhouse
Russian intelligence services have spied on and filmed Jehovah’s Witnesses in a bathhouse, in the latest example of persecution against the outlawed …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Dec. 16 2020, 5:04 pm
RFE/RL: Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years in Russian prison for ‘extremism’
A Siberian member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has been sentenced to six years for organizing activities of the religious group that Russia has labeled …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 27 2020, 1:13 pm
RFE/RL: Russian court refuses to release jailed Jehovah’s Witness
A court in Russia has refused to release a Jehovah’s Witness, Danish citizen Dennis Christensen, who was sentenced to six years in prison on extremism …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 10 2020, 9:50 am
Open Democracy: How Russian law enforcement prosecutes Jehovah’s Witnesses
In June 2020, a gas welder from Pskov, Gennady Shpakovsky, was sentenced to 6.5 years in a general penal colony. A practicing Jehovah’s Witness, …
Open Democracy
March 5 2020, 12:46 pm
RFE/RL: Court in occupied Crimea sends Jehovah’s Witness to prison for 6 years
A Russian-controlled court in Ukraine’s Crimea has sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for being a member of an extremist group. Read …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Feb. 14 2020, 5:19 pm
Reuters: Russian Jehovah’s Witness adherent was tortured in custody
Russian law enforcement officers in Siberia detained an adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses late one evening this week and drove him to a secluded …
Reuters
Dec. 13 2019, 2:05 pm
Reuters: Russia jails Jehovah’s Witness adherent for six years over extremism
A Russian court on Friday jailed a Jehovah’s Witness adherent for six years after finding him guilty of extremist activity, a spokesman for the …
Reuters
Sept. 20 2019, 10:46 am
RFE/RL: Russia jails 6 more Jehovah’s witnesses
Russian authorities in the southwestern city of Saratov have convicted and handed prison sentences to six Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious group that …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
May 23 2019, 3:22 pm
Associated Press: Russian court upholds guilty verdict for Jehovah’s Witness
A court in Russia has ruled that a Danish Jehovah’s Witness must stay in prison for the next six years. Read more here.
Associated Press
April 14 2019, 12:14 pm
Associated Press: Russia TV ‘demonized’ religious group in Estonia
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Estonia’s intelligence agency says a Russian state-controlled television station has been portraying members of the Jehovah’s …
Associated Press
Feb. 24 2019, 5:24 pm
RFE/RL: Russia says it is investigating torture claims by Jehovah’s Witnesses
An official of Russia’s main criminal investigative body says the organization is looking into allegations that its officers tortured members of the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Feb. 20 2019, 12:30 pm
The Moscow Times: 7 Jehovah’s witnesses brutally tortured in Russia
A spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses has said that Russian investigators have brutally tortured adherents of the group who are currently held in …
The Moscow Times
Feb. 6 2019, 12:14 pm
RFE/RL: Danish Jehovah’s Witness given six years for `extremism`
A Russian court has found Dennis Christensen, a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion, guilty of being part of a banned extremist …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Feb. 6 2019, 9:53 am
RFE/RL: Russian court to announce verdict in extremism trial of Danish Jehovah’s Witness
A Russian regional court is set to announce a verdict in the trial of a Danish member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who has been held on extremism …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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