by admin_HRWF | Feb 24, 2018 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
Arbitration in Priamurie deprives Jehovah’s Witnesses of property in Tynda RIA Novosty (21.02.2018) – http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/180221a.html – An arbitration court of Amur oblast made a decision to deprive the religious organization of...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 10, 2018 | China, Christians, Egypt, Freedom of Religion and Belief, India, Islam, Religion, Russia, Uyghurs
HRWF Int’l (10.01.2018) – Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l has released its 2017 database of believers and non-believers who have been imprisoned for exercising their freedom of religion or belief. Twenty-four countries in all were identified by...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 19, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
Lawsuit by Kumar Prakash against Irenaeus of Lyon Russian association of Centers for Study of Religions and Sects discussed in State Duma SOVA Center (15.12.2017) – http://www.sova-center.ru/en/ – On 12 December 2017, a roundtable was held in the State...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 23, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
The Russian Orthodox Free Church argues the authorities take sides with the official Orthodox Church (Application no. 32895/13). HRWF (23.10.2017) – In the case Bryansk-Tula Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Free Church against Russia lodged on 19 April 2013, the...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 23, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
Hare Krishna accused the public authorities of dissemination of false information about their movement (Application no. 37477/11) HRWF (23.10.2017) – Earlier this year, the European Court addressed a number of questions to the parties in the case “Centralised...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 18, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
By Thea Morrison Georgia Today (17.10.2017) – http://bit.ly/2hOns27 – Georgia’s Russian-occupied region of South Ossetia has banned religious group Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist organization, also officially declaring their activities as...
