- Forum 18
17 June 2025 RUSSIA: Foreigners face summary expulsion for illegal "missionary activity" On 5 February, amendments to the Administrative Code entered force allowing police – without having t …
TAJIKISTAN: Secret Supreme Court hearing bans Jehovah's Witnesses
At the instigation of the General Prosecutor, a secret Supreme Court hearing in Dushanbe on 29 March 2021 banned Jehovah's Witnesses for a second time, nearly 14 years after they were first banne …
BELARUS: "They decided to fabricate a case and accuse him of espionage"
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 priso …
RUSSIA: Criminal prosecution to follow fine for anti-war post?
Police prosecuted Apostolic Orthodox Church Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko for allegedly "discrediting" Russia's Armed Forces in a 2022 online video. On 1 April, a St Petersburg co …
UKRAINE: How should government deal with conscientious objectors in …
Ukraine's Constitution specifically mentions the right to opt out of military service, at least on religious-based conscientious grounds. However, the government restricts this right in peacetime …
OCCUPIED UKRAINE – Forum 18
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 crimin …
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Orthodox priest's 14-year "espionage" jail term
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 Kostiantyn Maksimov in a stri …
RUSSIA: Fined for citing Vatican, Scottish Episcopal texts
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 "unjust …
Forum 18 – Russia – Page 1 of 48
17 June 2025 RUSSIA: Foreigners face summary expulsion for illegal "missionary activity" On 5 February, amendments to the Administrative Code entered force allowing police – without having t …
UZBEKISTAN: President to sign restrictive new Religion Law?
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 Religion Law. It cont …
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