by admin_HRWF | Sep 1, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Sova Center (21.08.2020) – https://bit.ly/3jq9Msq – Latest report about the misuse of the extremism legislation against Falun Gong practitioners, Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Falun Gong In late July, the Supreme Court of the Republic of...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 17, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Sova Center (16.12.2019) – https://bit.ly/38N0GkP – (…) November brought new cases and sentences against real and alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical party banned in Russia as terrorist – in our opinion, without sufficient reason. We view...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 25, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Defense challenges fine for distributing Bibles on territory of radio engineering university in Riazan SOVA Center (18.11.2019) – http://bit.ly/2DbAxh6 – In Riazan, a municipal court fined Oleg Alekseevich K. for “illegal” missionary...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 30, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Sova Center (13.09.2019) – https://bit.ly/2mZM7Hz – Earlier this month, Sheremetyevo Airport Customs announced the seizure of Fortress of the Muslim (various editions of this book are included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials) from a passenger...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 22, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
On October 3, 2018, President Vladimir Putin submitted to the Russian legislature a bill that decriminalized some of the deeds currently described in Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code. The article in question relates to “incitement to hatred,” which it defines...
