Crimea: Five Further Criminal Investigations, Two On Wanted List
By Felix Corley The Russian occupation authorities in Crimea are investigating criminal cases against a further five individuals for exercising
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Articles by F18News :
Crimea: Now 12 Jailed Prisoners Of Conscience
By Felix Corley On 1 December 2022, the Court in the northern Crimean town of Armyansk jailed two Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Ukraine: Conscientious Objector Jailed
Ivano-Frankivsk Police took 46-year-old Christian conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko into custody on 23 February to begin serving his one-year jail
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Tajikistan: Ailing Prisoner Of Conscience Again Fails In Hospital Transfer Bid
By Felix Corley The governor of Strict Regime Prison YaS 3/5 in Khujand refuses to explain why Jehovah’s Witness prisoner
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Tajikistan: Regime Bans Ismaili Home Prayers, Lessons For Children
At least two Ismaili home owners in Mountainous Badakhshan were fined one month’s average wage each for hosting prayers in
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Ukraine: Conscientious Objector Told ‘To Be Ready To Be Taken To Prison’
By Felix Corley Ivano-Frankivsk police told Protestant conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko “to be ready to be taken to prison” on
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Ukraine: Draft Law Better Than Others, Freedom Of Religion Or Belief Concerns Remain
By Dmytro Vovk* The Ukrainian government has produced a draft law prohibiting the operation of religious organisations affiliated with “centres
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Russia: Attacks On Religious Freedom Continue With Two Trials, Nine Long Jail Terms
By Victoria Arnold In two trials in mid-December 2022, two courts in Russia’s Far East sentenced a total of 9
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Occupied Ukraine: ‘There Is No One To Replace The Arrested Priests’
By Felix Corley* On 16 November, Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) arrested the two Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish priests in the
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Tajikistan: Urgent Medical Treatment Denied Again, Defying UN Human Rights Committee
By Mushfig Bayram Jehovah’s Witness prisoner of conscience 71-year-old Shamil Khakimov has again been denied urgently needed medical treatment in
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