Azerbaijan: Supreme Court Rejects Conscientious Objectors’ Appeals
By Felix Corley Two conscientious objectors – both of them Jehovah’s Witnesses – have failed to overturn their criminal convictions
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Kazakhstan: Muslim Faces Closed Trial In Shymkent
By Felix Corley If convicted at his closed trial in Shymkent, 40-year-old Muslim Dilmurat Makhamatov faces up to 19 years
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Turkmenistan: Three More Conscientious Objectors Jailed
By Felix Corley Three more Jehovah’s Witness conscientious objectors were jailed in July to punish them for refusing compulsory military
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Russia: Two Years’ Jail To Punish Religious Study Meetings
Another Muslim has received a prison term for meeting to study Islam using the works of the late Turkish theologian
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Russia: Jehovah’s Witness Homes Targeted In 28 New Raids, Now 20 Criminal Investigations
By Victoria Arnold Law enforcement officers, some armed and in body armour, raided a further 28 Jehovah’s Witness homes in
Read moreAzerbaijan: Sufis And Protestants Raided
By Felix Corley In December 2017, Sufi Muslim Rashad Abidov, whose home in the northern town of Sheki was raided
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Kyrgyzstan: Church Arson Follows Long-Standing Government Failures
By Mushfig Bayram On January 2, 2018 the Baptist Church in Kaji-Sai, in Kyrgyzstan’s north-eastern Issyk-Kul [Ysyk-Kol] Region was burnt
Read moreRussia: Property Sell-Offs, Alternative Service Denials Follow Jehovah’s Witness Ban
By Victoria Arnold Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia continue to feel the impact of their liquidation and the nationwide ban on
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Russia: Muslim Prisoner Of Conscience Tortured
By Victoria Arnold Russian prisoner of conscience Yevgeny Kim, who was jailed on 19 June for three years and nine
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Crimea: One Year Of Russian “Anti-Missionary’ Punishments
By Felix Corley One year on from the introduction of penalties in Russia for ill-defined “missionary activity” – which the
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