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 ...

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for “extremism”, in the first conviction of its kind since a 2017 law that outlawed the religious group. Armed FSB ...

"Forget it," they told his wife, Alyona, taking away the couple's tablet devices, computers and phones. "Go and find a new phone, a new tablet and a new husband." Vilitkevich, who lives in the ...

Russia's top prosecutor is threatening to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses for alleged "extremism." The religious denomination has faced growing pressure in Russia over the past several years, with church ...

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 ...

Robert Warren, a spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, told the Brooklyn Eagle on Friday that the organization is “very disappointed” with the Russian court ruling, especially the charge of extremism ...

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for "extremism", in the first conviction of its kind since a 2017 law that outlawed the religious group. Danish ...