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January 17, 2022

Unjust Verdicts

Sevastopol Appeals Court Upheld Sentence for 49-Year Old Igor Shmidt, One of Jehovah's Witnesses: Six Years in a Penal Colony

January 14, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Yuriy Savelyev is being relocated to Novosibirsk to attend his appeal hearing. A lawyer visited him in a Barnaul detention center

January 13, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Vasiliy Meleshko, who is serving a prison sentence in a penal colony for his belief in Jehovah God, was placed into a punishment cell

January 13, 2022

Unjust Verdicts

A Krasnodar fourth appeals court upheld the 24-year old Semyon Baybak's three-and-a-half year suspended sentence for believing in God

January 13, 2022

Criminal trial

“I am convinced that a peaceful religion cannot be extremist. I love all people." The village of Pavlovskaya-based Maksim Beltikov's concluding remarks

January 12, 2022

Criminal trial

A new criminal case was initiated against Nizhny Novgord-based Gevorg Gevorkian, 50, for practicing his faith

January 11, 2022

Crimes Against Believers

New details of searches and arrests in Samara: one additional believer reported beatings

January 10, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

The appeal hearing in the Yuriy Savelyev case, a Novosibirsk retiree convicted for practicing his faith, has been postponed. The believer is transported from the penal colony to a pre-trial detention center

January 10, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Believers that were detained during the December 2021 searches, are being held in a Samara region pre-trial detention center No. 1. They can receive correspondence by mail

January 10, 2022

Criminal trial

Aram Daniyelyan, a father of a six-month-old, was detained in the Samara airport. The believer was accused of extremism and is currently being held

January 10, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Arsen Avanesov and his father Vilen are in the process of being transferred to a penal colony to serve their sentences and cannot receive letters

January 7, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

During the three months of being held in a Kostroma pre-trial detention center, Dmitriy Terebilov received 1,400 letters of support from fellow believers

January 7, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

During a prolonged transfer, Aleksey Berchyuk was ill. Now he feels well and plans to master a new skill in the penal colony where he is imprisoned

January 5, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Konstantin Sannikov receives parcels and letters at the detention center where he is being held. He is still concerned about health problems and the ban that is imposed on him of talking to his wife

January 5, 2022

Criminal trial

Another prisoner of conscience, Yen Sen Lee from Khabarovsk Territory, died while under investigation. The criminal trial is carried on

January 5, 2022

Unjust Verdicts

Nikolsk Court Hands a Three-Year Suspended Sentence to the Krupnovs for Discussing the Bible

January 3, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

An attorney visited Aleksandr Rumyantsev at the „Butyrka“ pre-trial detention center in Moscow. The believer has been behind bars for four months

January 3, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

After being moved to multiple detention centers, Aleksandr Serebryakov and Yuriy Temirbulatov are, once again, placed into the Moscow-based "Vodnik" pre-trial detention center

January 3, 2022

Inside Penal Colonies and Detention Centers

Oleg Danilov, who is serving time in a prison colony for practicing his faith in Jehovah God, has been returned to strict conditions of detention after hospitalization

December 31, 2021

Criminal trial

A criminal case against six believers in Khabarovsk will be re-tried after a new trial court composition will be formed. The first hearing is scheduled for January 10

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