Jehovah's Witnesses News
Disabled man arrested, beaten, and deported for reading Bible
| JW-Media.org 2011-09-16 DUSHANBE, Tajikistan—Representatives of the State Committee on National Security (SCNS) and the Dushanbe Police Department raided a peaceful religious meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses held in a private apartment on July 22, 2011. ... |
Aggression towards Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia reaches unprecedented heights
| JW-Media.org 2011-09-14 CHEBOKSARY, Russia—For the first time in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, Russian citizens who are Jehovah’s Witnesses are now being arrested and detained without charges. ... |
Russia: "Unfortunately the judge did not agree with the prosecutor"
| Forum18.org 2011-09-12 Rashid Abdulov, a Muslim who reads the works of theologian Said Nursi, told Forum 18 News Service he was pleased to have been freed on 7 September after nearly eight months' detention. ... |
Kazakhstan: New proposed legal restrictions on religion reach Parliament
| Forum18.org 2011-09-06 The proposed new Religion Law which reached Parliament yesterday (5 September), if adopted in its current form, would impose a complex four-tier registration system, ban unregistered religious activity, impose compulsory religious censorship and require a ... |
Turkmenistan: You're not going on a summer holiday
| Forum18.org 2011-09-05 Members of a Baptist Church from northern Turkmenistan had just arrived for a shared summer holiday in Avaza on the Caspian Sea when the local police officer, eight officials in civilian clothes and the imam (who is also the state-appointed religious affa ... |
Ruling allows Korea to continue imprisoning conscientious objectors
| JW-Media.org 2011-09-02 SEOUL, Korea—Despite international recognition of the rights of conscientious objectors, a ruling by Korea’s highest court will permit the continued imprisonment of Korean citizens exercising their rights as conscientious objectors to military ... |
Russia: "The fantasy of the special services"
| Forum18.org 2011-08-31 Readers of the works of the late Turkish Muslim theologian Said Nursi claim prosecutors planted "evidence" of how to make explosives during a raid on a flat in Chelyabinsk where Muslim women meet to pray. ... |
Russia’s harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses continues with police raids in Taganrog
| JW-Media.org 2011-08-29 TAGANROG, Russia—Beginning at 6:30 in the morning of August 25, 2011, police executed 19 simultaneous searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the city of Taganrog and its suburbs. ... |
