by admin_HRWF | Jan 20, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Aleksei Yershov is already the second Jehovah’s Witness to be sent behind bars in 2022 A court in Seversk sentenced this 68-year old Jehovah’s Witness to three years in a penal colony. A week ago, Maksim Nikolayevich Beltikov was sentenced to two years in prison By...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 16, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Freedom of religion or belief: Special Bimonthly FORB Digest (01–15.01.2022) 14.01.2022 – Court approves sentencing of three Jehovah’s Witnesses from Pavlov On January 14, 2022, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court upheld the conviction of Alexei...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 14, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Prospects for religious freedom in Russian-occupied Ukraine By Dr Aaron Rhodes for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (14.01.2022) – In 2014, the Russian Federation brought parts of Ukraine’s Donbas region under its effective control by a process of...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 30, 2021 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Freedom of religion or belief : Special Bimonthly FORB Digest (16–30.12.2021) 30.12.2021 – First prison term after the Plenum Ruling: one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Aleksandr Nikolayev, sentenced to 2.5 years in prison Link to full text in Russian:...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 29, 2021 | Human Rights in the World
Russian court shuts renowned rights group By Dasha Litinova, Associated Press Associated Press (28.12.2021) — Russia’s highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations, the latest move in a relentless...
