by admin_HRWF | Jul 18, 2018 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
JW Headquarters (18.07.2018) – On Sunday 15 July 2018, around 4 p.m., a police raid took place in Penza (about 650 km SE of Moscow). The police officers arrived at homes where four small groups of Witnesses had gathered. They had waited for someone to leave the...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 10, 2018 | Christians, Russia
JW Headquarters / Russia Religion News (10.07.2018) – https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/180706a.html – On 6 July 2018, 46-year-old Sergei Poliakov and his wife, Anastasia, who are suspected of professing the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses,...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 7, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Radicalism, Religion, Russia
HRWF (08.06.2018) – The number of Jehovah’s Witnesses deprived of their freedom has been dramatically and rapidly increasing in Russia since the ban of their religion in April 2017. It can unfortunately be expected that the situation will worsen day after day and that...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 7, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Radicalism, Russia
HRWF (08.06.2018) – On 7 June, ten of the wives of the 16 imprisoned JWs in Russia sent an open letter (Russian version: https://jw-russia.org/news/18060718-345.html) plea to Mikhail Fedotov—advisor to President Putin and chairman of the Presidential...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 29, 2018 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
HRWF (29.04.2018) – On 10 April 2018, police came to the home of 32-year-old Anatoliy Vilitkevich and took him into custody, accusing him of organizing the activity of an extremist organization. Vilitkevich was merely considering Bible-based publications with a...
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...
