Freedom of Religion and Belief
EUROPEAN COURT: Ruling about forced blood transfusion of a Jehovah’s Witness in Spain Shortcomings which led to blood transfusions being administered to a Jehovah’s Witness against her will breached her right to autonomy. The decision was unanimous Registrar of the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: A court fined a disabled Jehovah’s Witness suffering from cancer to 4500 USD By Willy Fautré The European Times (12.08.2024) – On August 8, 2014, Judge Sergey Lytkin of the Kurgan City Court convicted Anatoliy Isakov, 59, for so-called extremism...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
ECHR: Russia to pay 160,000 EUR to 16 Jehovah’s Witnesses but no chance they will ever see that money By Willy Fautré, Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (29.07.2024) – On 18 July 2024, the European Court of Human Rights examined nine...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, what is the matter? Enhanced state recognition was refused to the religious organizations based on arguments that have already been rejected by the courts, including the European Court of Human Rights. Version in Lithuanian by...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: 68-year-old Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 2.5 years of forced labor Sova Center (16.05.2024) – On March 16, 2024, the Orel Regional Court approved the sentence of Jehovah’s Witness Tatiana Piskareva. She was sentenced to two and a half years...