Five Jehovah’s Witnesses have been detained in Russia and charged with possessing weapons and running an extremist group, investigators said Wednesday, in the latest case targeting the banned ...

With masks and rifles, police came to Anatoly Vilitkevich’s door in the early morning and made him pack a bag. He was wanted for religious extremism — as a Jehovah’s Witness. “Forget it,” they told ...

Two Jehovah’s Witnesses joined more than 100 fellow worshippers in a Russian prison Monday following an alleged epidemic of espionage, torture and raids against the faith, the church told the Daily ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has widened a crackdown against Jehovah's Witnesses, jailing six adherents of the Christian denomination for extremism in a move rights activists said was unjust and flouted ...