Freedom of Religion and Belief
Jehovah’s Witnesses acquitted on appeal for alleged discrimination and incitement to hatred Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (16.06.2022) – https://bit.ly/39urLyF – On 7 June 2022, the Ghent Court of Appeal...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Freedom of religion or belief – Special Bimonthly FORB Digest (01–15.06.2022) 14.06.2022 – Old Believer community in Simferopol fined for “illegal” missionary work Sova center – On May 30, 2022, the Magistrate Court of Court...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Conscientious objection: Jehovah’s Witnesses win a case in Strasbourg Registrar of the European Court (07.06.2022) – In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Teliatnikov v. Lithuania (application no. 51914/19) the European Court of Human Rights held,...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Strasbourg rules Russia’s ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017 is unlawful Russia ordered to pay EUR 59,617,458 ($63,684,978 USD) for pecuniary damage (mainly seized property) and EUR 3,447,250 ($3,682,445 USD) in respect of non-pecuniary damage Link to ECHR press...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Freedom of religion of belief : FORB special bimonthly newsletter (16-31.05.2022) 31.05.2022 – RUSSIA: Five years after Jehovah’s Witness ban, jailings continue Five years on from the 2017 ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, prosecutors have launched...