Jehovah's Witnesses News
Russia: "This isn't about freedom of conscience or censorship"
| Forum18.org 2011-12-02 Russian state censorship increasingly extended nationwide in November to cover Jehovah's Witness websites – and possibly also Hare Krishna sms announcements, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. ... |
Conscientious Objectors
| JW-Media.org 2011-10-01 Currently, there are 804 of Jehovah’s Witnesses who are imprisoned in South Korea. ... |
Turkey: The new Constitution drafting process and freedom of religion or belief
| Forum18.org 2011-11-30 Turkey's new Constitution drafting process offers many possibilities for the protection of freedom of religion or belief. ... |
Conscientious objectors face indefinite prison sentence for refusing to renounce faith
| JW-Media.org 2011-11-24 TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Prison officials are threatening to indefinitely extend the prison terms for three of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are prisoners of conscience in Uzbekistan. ... |
Kazakhstan: New draft regulations outline official religious censorship
| Forum18.org 2011-11-24 Kazakhstan's state Agency of Religious Affairs (ARA) has prepared – but not yet adopted – new regulations to implement the system of compulsory state censorship of almost all religious literature and objects. ... |
European court protects rights of conscientious objectors in Turkey
| JW-Media.org 2011-11-23 STRASBOURG, France—On November 22, 2011, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously concluded that Turkey has violated the right of freedom of conscience of Mr. Yunus Erçep, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Turkey, who was ... |
Criminal conviction in Russia seen as an “attack on freedom of expression and religion”
| JW-Media.org 2011-11-22 GORNO-ALTAYSK, Russia—An appeal hearing contesting the criminal conviction of Aleksandr Kalistratov will be heard by the Supreme Court of the Altay Republic on December 22, 2011. ... |
