Jehovah's Witnesses News
Armenia: After Strasbourg punishment, will government resolve alternative service issue "for ever"?
| Forum18.org 2012-02-01 On 10 January the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) again ordered Armenia to pay compensation to two Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector former prisoners for violating their rights to religious freedom. ... |
Turkmenistan: Four-year prison sentence after "secret trial"
| Forum18.org 2012-01-25 After a "secret trial" in the capital Ashgabad on 18 January which his family and friends knew nothing about, Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Nuryllayev was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on charges of "spreading pornography", a cour ... |
Russian authorities employ covert surveillance methods to initiate criminal case
| JW-Media.org 2012-01-24 Maksim Kalinin ... |
Russia: Prisoner of conscience freed but not exonerated
| Forum18.org 2012-01-20 Seven months after being imprisoned in the Russian city of Orenburg, Muslim prisoner of conscience Asylzhan Kelmukhambetov was freed on 19 January at the end of his second appeal against his 18-month prison term, his lawyer Raulya Rogacheva and family mem ... |
Kyrgyzstan: "We have not been able to pray and worship together"
| Forum18.org 2012-01-18 Since July 2011, "we have not been able to pray and worship together", an Ahmadi Muslim complained to Forum 18 News Service. ... |
Nagorno-Karabakh: Conscientious objector jailed for 30 months
| Forum18.org 2012-01-17 Jehovah's Witness Karen Harutyunyan has been sentenced in the unrecognised entity of Nagorno-Karabakh to 30 months' imprisonment, for refusing compulsory military service. ... |
Kyrgyzstan: "Against the Constitution and discriminatory"
| Forum18.org 2012-01-16 Officials continue to enforce Kyrgyzstan's repressive Bakiev-era Religion Law, Forum 18 News Service has found. ... |
Russia: Appeal to be freed from jail due, but criminal prosecutions continue
| Forum18.org 2012-01-12 After seven months' imprisonment in Russia, Asylzhan Kelmukhambetov is hoping that his second appeal against an 18-month jail term – due on 19 January at Orenburg Regional Court - will see him freed, his lawyer Raulya Rogacheva told Forum 18 News Se ... |
