by admin_HRWF | Aug 6, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Over 90 administrative cases against religious organizations in Crimea have been documented. UNIAN (05.08.2020) – https://bit.ly/30wQeM9 – The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemns the eviction of the community of the Orthodox Church...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
– JW.ORG (04.06.2020) – On 4 June, the Crimean Supreme Court sentenced Artem Gerasimov to six years in prison for his peaceful Christian worship as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He was seeking acquittal from his original sentence by the Yalta City Court,...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 6, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Jarrod Lopez (*) HRWF (05.03.2020) – On 5 March, the Dzhankoysky District Court of the Republic of Crimea convicted Sergey Filatov and sentenced him to six years in prison. He is the first one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Crimea to be convicted...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 14, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Halya Coynash KHPG (13.11.2019) – https://bit.ly/2pj1Jr1 – “Does it not strike you as strange that in the 23 years Crimea was under Ukrainian rule, there were no ‘extremists’ nor ‘terrorists’, and no ‘acts of terrorism’, but as soon as Russia...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 15, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Russia has dangerous construction plans for a site in occupied Crimea on the UNESCO World Heritage List, with one of the reasons linked with Moscow’s attempts to rewrite its own history. UKRINFORM (10.09.2019) – https://bit.ly/32gXavF – As UNESCO explains,...