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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …