19 June 2025. RUSSIA: "Missionary activity" prosecutions January 2024 to April 2025 - list. The 124 known prosecutions under Administrative Code Article 5.26, Part 4 ("Russians conducting …

Apr 14, 2022 · A 2021 secret Supreme Court ban on Jehovah's Witnesses as allegedly "extremist" was not revealed until over a year later. "The participation of the organisation was not …

In early 2024, Russian occupation forces arrested a Protestant in her fifties for participating in a July 2023 prayer meeting in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol. Prosecutors handed her …

On 1 April, the Supreme Court rejected Catholic priest Henryk Okolotovich's appeal against his 11-year jail term on treason charges. Both his trial and appeal were closed. In a message from …

Aug 5, 2024 · At a closed hearing at the Russian-controlled Crimean Supreme Court in Simferopol on 2 August, Zaporizhzhia Regional Court jailed 41-year-old Ukrainian Orthodox priest Fr …

Apr 1, 2025 · Soon after Russia launched its renewed invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin introduced new offences in order to

While neither the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) nor the European Convention on Human Rights

Oct 12, 2020 · Uzbekistan's new Religion Law [signed by the President 5 July, came into force 6 July] maintains almost all the restrictions on freedom of religion and belief in the current …

May 23, 2024 · A Moscow court fined an Anglican Christian three weeks' average wage under Russia's "gay propaganda" law for social media posts citing a Vatican declaration condemning …

Oct 8, 2024 · 5 August 2024. OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Orthodox priest's 14-year "espionage" jail term. At a closed hearing at the Russian-controlled Crimean Supreme Court in Simferopol on …