Freedom of Religion and Belief
Photo: SOVA’s Olga Sibireva. From Twitter. RUSSIA: Liquidating the SOVA Center: the official end of religious freedom in Russia By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest April 16 – 30 Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) is calling upon the European Union and the European Parliament to condemn the decision of a Russian court to liquidate SOVA Center, the last source of...
Human Rights in the World
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit for the liquidation of the SOVA Center* Human Rights Without Frontiers calls upon the international community to stand up for SOVA Center and the long-time human rights defender Alexander Verkhovsky,...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Muslim followers of peaceful new religious movements prosecuted Two-year prison term for a Tablighi Jamaat follower SOVA CENTER/ HRWF (31.03.2022) – https://bit.ly/3qX6mDO – In January, a court in Omsk fined three followers of Tablighi Jamaat under Art....
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Several cases in courts for ‘illegal’ missionary work By Willy Fautré HRWF with SOVA CENTER (18.03.2022) – Several religious leaders and communities are currently prosecuted for ‘illegal’ missionary work on the basis of Art. 5.26, Part 3, of the Administrative...