Sergey and Anastasiya Polyakov are arrested and placed in pretrial detention. In Russia and Crimea, there have been 227 criminal cases involving 492 Jehovah’s Witnesses, Lopes said in the press release. Once the Witnesses are jailed, prosecutors petition the courts to extend the pretrial detentions, and the courts typically grant their requests. Jehovah’s Witnesses refused to participate in military training or serve in the army. The court also sentenced Mr. Baranovskiy to six years in prison. MOSCOW (AP) — The Jehovah’s Witnesses say a Danish member of the religious denomination who has been imprisoned in Russia since 2017 has been granted early release by a court. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives. Officials attempt to justify their actions by citing the April 2017 ban on the Witnesses’ legal entities and misapplying Article 282 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code (RFCC) concerning extremist activity. Sergei Filatov and all other Jehovah’s Witness imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of religion and belief are prisoners of conscience. Police search the homes of several Witnesses in Penza. After two days of court hearings, the Abinskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentences Vasiliy Meleshko to three years in prison. Jehovah’s Witnesses Imprisoned for Their Faith —By Location. They go after the pacifist Jehovah's Witnesses, to make up their statistics and justify their own existence.". Russian Federation Claims Jehovah’s Witnesses Seek to Divide Families . "Russia has absolutely nothing to gain from the pointless, cruel, and abusive persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses," New York-based Human Rights Watch said of Christensen's case in July. A year later, he moved to Gukovo (Rostov Region) with his mother and grandmother. MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Russian-controlled Crimea sentenced a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to six and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of organising extremist activities, it said. The Volgograd court postponed the announcement of the verdict of four Jehovah's Witnesses. Russian Jehovah’s Witness Jailed for ‘Bible Talk’ - The Moscow Times themoscowtimes.com - The Moscow Times • 18h Russia outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an “extremist” group in 2017 and dozens of members have been imprisoned in the years since. Fifty-seven of these Jehovah’s Witnesses have been imprisoned, 33 are under house arrest, and 1,456 homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been raided since 2017, the … “The numbers are really stunning,” she said. Aleksey became acquainted with the Bible as a child. We are deeply concerned about recent specific reports of torture and other ill-treatment of several members of Jehovah’s Witnesses in detention.” The statement continued: “Torture breaches international human rights law, in particular the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, all of which the Russian Federation is a state party to.”. Found insideThe book will be relevant for policy makers, post-graduates and researchers in the social and political sciences, religious studies, law, psychology, medicine and education, as well as practitioners in direct contact with targeted ... “There are no extremist statements in their conversations. "[We are] deeply concerned by Russian court decision to jail six Jehovah's Witnesses in Saratov for peaceful religious practice," tweeted State Department spokesperson Mrgan Ortagus. Sergey Klimov is arrested and placed in pretrial detention. FOUNDER/GROUP HISTORY "So who else can they catch? It upholds his conviction but changes his six-and-a-half-year prison sentence to probation for the same term. As of 15 August, 44 Jehovah’s Witnesses were in prison in Russia: 10 had been convicted and 34 were in pretrial detention. Russia listed the religious organization as extremist in 2017. On February 6, 2019, Judge Aleksey Rudnev of the Zheleznodorozhniy District Court of Oryol read the verdict convicting Mr. Christensen on the false charge of ‘organizing the activity of an extremist organization,’ under Article 282.2(1) of the RFCC. A U.S. federal commission has accused Russia of conducting a "brutal campaign" against religious freedom after two Jehovah's Witnesses from the same family were given prison sentences. Sergey Klimov was arrested on June 3, 2018, after law enforcement officers and special police forces invaded two homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The U.S. State Department condemned earlier this month Russia’s crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses “in the strongest possible terms.”. You can supplement your knowledge whenever you choose by visiting the author’s Web site at www.ronrhodes.org for free, thorough, up-to-the-minute information on each cult discussed in the book.If you’re concerned for the temporal and ... All 395 official chapters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia were banned. In June, a court sentenced Gennady Shpakovsky to 6 and a half years in prison, the longest sentence handed to a Jehovah’s Witness so far. Russia officially banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017 and declared the religious group an extremist organization. Five of the six Witnesses convicted on September 19, 2019, are transferred to Penal Colony No. Aleksey Berchuk was sentenced by a Russia court to eight years imprisonment, the longest yet to someone convicted of charges linked to being a practicing Jehovah's Witness. JWs, as they are known (and call themselves), might seem an odd addition to that list. On April 1, 2019, Sergey Skrynnikov, a practicing Jehovah’s Witness in Russia, became the second member of the religious group to be convicted under Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code. You have 4 free articles remaining this month. the criminal case stems from recordings of conversations between believers which led to an April 2019 raid on the Baranovskys’ home. In the meantime, the prison authorities placed him in a punishment cell for ten days despite his poor health for alleged minor violations of prison rules. Criminal trial of Dennis Christensen begins in the Zheleznodorozhniy District Court, with Judge Aleksey Rudnev presiding. Early on April 7, 2021, three armed security officers, four investigating officers, and two agents forcefully searched the home of 60-year-old Vasiliy Meleshko. On February 24, 2021, the Abakan City Court of the Republic of Khakassia sentenced Ms. Baranovskaya to two years in prison. July 2, 2021. Berezovsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region sentences Sergey Britvin and Vadim Levchuk to four years in prison. Activists and human rights advocates say Russia is escalating its crackdown on the religious group. In 2011, the U.S. State Department issued sanctions against two Russian intelligence operatives, Vladimir Yermolayev and Stepan Tkach, for suspected involvement in torture and human rights violations against Jehovah's Witnesses. Mr. Makhammadiyev suffers a broken rib, a collapsed lung, and kidney damage. Found inside – Page 111When he was arrested, he was forced to sign a document wherein he had to ... 90 Cf . NRJW, 31 July 2019 (https://www .jw .org/en/news/jw/region/russia/ ... 'Using material once locked behind the Iron Curtain, Sarah Helm has performed a tremendous feat of historical rescue: this book at last gives full voice to the women of Ravensbrück, one of the most notorious women's prisons in history, for ... UPDATE. ", "Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians, too. Danish member Dennis Christensen was arrested that year for […] For example, in a decision adopted on April 26, 2019, the WGAD denounced Russia’s systemic persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a case involving Mr. Dmitriy Mikhailov from the city of Shuya. "So this should be looked into..". However, Mr. Aleksei Shatunov of the Kursk Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal demanding that the court ruling be canceled. He worked as a tax inspector, an auditor and, most recently, before his criminal prosecution, a chief accountant. Investigators initiate criminal charges against selected Witnesses for alleged extremist activity and petition the courts to order their pretrial detention. Copyright © 2021 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. In a similar case last month, a court in Russian-annexed Crimea sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for “organizing an extremist organization, in the latest harsh sentence against the Christian movement,” the Moscow Times reported. "Instead of searching and proving the guilt of the defendants, the aim of the investigation was to prove their religious affiliation, despite the fact that no religion is prohibited in Russia.". CRIMINAL CASE. "We urge Russia to respect its citizens' rights to religious freedom and stop falsely accusing Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism.". “All these cases concerned the branding of peaceful religious activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘extremist activities’ which has led to arrest and detention of individuals belonging to this religion. … Vasiliy Meleshko is the 22nd Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to prison in 2021 By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times (14.08.2021) – https://bit.ly/3xM62s3 – On 11 August, 60-year-old Vasiliy Meleshko was sentenced to three years in prison after only one day of hearings at the Abinskiy District Court of Krasnodar Territory. “ Since the Russian Supreme Court designated the Jehovah’s Witnesses an “extremist” organization in 2017, 52 Jehovah’s Witnesses have been imprisoned for exercising their beliefs, including Alexandr Ivshin, who was recently given a record-length 7.5 year sentence for a Jehovah’s Witness by a Russian court”. There are no victims in the case,” the group's statement said. This detention was extended seven times, separating him from his wife and family for a year and five months before he was finally tried and sentenced. Aleksey was the sole breadwinner, so his mother, who is disabled, has had to move to Rostov-on-Don to help take care of her grandson while Inna looks for a suitable job. The Jehovah’s Witnesses say 353 adherents are facing criminal cases in Russia, 34 are imprisoned and 24 are under house arrest. Russia's Supreme Court banned the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017 and declared the religious group an extremist organization. This report documents the state of human rights in 159 countries and territories during the year 2012. His mother and grandmother tried to teach him from a young age to love this ancient book. Russian authorities maintain the injuries were self-inflicted as a play for sympathy. For example, in a decision adopted on April 26, 2019, the WGAD denounced Russia’s systemic persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a case involving Mr. Dmitriy Mikhailov from the city of Shuya. In 2017, Russia officially outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses … Police and special forces raid homes in Kirov. Jehovah's Witnesses have also reportedly been subject to torture, including beatings and electric shocks. At least two Witnesses were severely beaten by officers of the Special Rapid Response Unit who forcibly entered the home of Alexander Bokov. A court in southern Siberia has sentenced a woman Jehovah’s Witness to a real prison term for the first time as part of Russia’s ongoing campaign against members of the Christian denomination, the religious group said. And Jehovah’s Witnesses now are under sustained attack in Russia. Baranovskaya is the first woman in Jehovah’s Witnesses to be sentenced to prison by Russia since the 2017 court ruling. "We call on Russia to release #religiousprisoners and #politicalprisoners, including all Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted on account of their faith," wrote Sam Brownback, the U.S. "The security forces are measured by results. Found insideIn telling the story of this often misunderstood faith, Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent, non-conformity, and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Traktorozavodsky District Court of Volgograd (4 Opolchenskaya St., Volgograd). Photo courtesy of Jehovah’s Witnesses. "Six Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia just sentenced to prison... for 'extremism.' Pskov Regional Court rules to release Gennady Shpakovskiy from prison. Mrs. Polyakova is the first female Witness in the Russian Federation to be imprisoned on charges of extremism. HRWF (20.09.2021) – Dmitriy Terebilov is the 23 rd Jehovah’s Witness to be sentenced to a prison term this year.. Terebilov was born in 1980 in Kostroma. On that day, police broke down apartment doors, seized personal belongings and, in some cases, planted banned religious publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The March 18 presidential election and the 2016 State Duma elections were marked by accusations of government interference and manipulation of the electoral process, including the exclusion of meaningful opposition candidates.This is the ... Mass searches of at least 100 Witness homes in the Voronezh and Belgorod regions. And they give special value to cases of terror or extremism," he said. Start: 11:00. There are some 8.7 million JWs worldwide, with the largest concentrations in America, Mexico, and Brazil. When authorities searched Mr. Ivshin’s house, the stress of the search caused him to suffer a hypertensive emergency. *. The men are appealing the convictions, which have been decried by both religious rights advocates and human rights groups. Found insideReproduction of the original: The Finished Mystery by Charles Taze Russell RUSSIA. and “undesirable” labels, threatening the existence of the free press day by day. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, making this the longest, harshest sentence imposed on one Jehovah’s Witnesses since the 2017 Supreme Court ban. Found inside – Page iThis volume describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries. A Russian judge on Friday imposed an eight-year suspended prison sentence for a 24-year-old Jehovah's Witness and a seven-year suspended sentence for … However, Andrey Vlasov, a disabled Witness who walks with a cane, was detained for two days. Doctors diagnosed Baranovskaya with a cerebral infarction, or ischemic stroke, in summer 2020. Russian authorities continue their aggressive attack on Jehovah’s Witnesses by conducting a campaign of terror reminiscent of the Soviet era. 5 Visit jw.org for more information on other Witnesses persecuted for their faith in Russia. September 23, 2021 Judge: Irina Struk. Russia officially banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017 and declared the religious group an extremist organization. Found insideIn this book, Rhoda E. Howard argues that communities can exist in modern Western societies if they protect the whole spectrum of individual human rights, not only civil and political but also economic rights. Found insideThe human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. On August 27, 2021, the Cheremushkinsky District Court of Moscow chose Jehovah's Witnesses Aleksandra Rumyantseva and Eduard Sviridova as a preventive measure in the form of imprisonment for a period of 1 month and 29 days, that is, until October 24, … RUSSIA: Two Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 7 and 8 years in prison. These individuals ranged in age from 19 to 90 years old. Judge Dmitry Larin of the Leninskiy District Court of Saratov sentences six male Witnesses to prison—Konstantin Bazhenov, Aleksey Budenchuk, Feliks Makhammadiyev, Roman Gridasov, Gennadiy German, and Aleksey Miretskiy—for allegedly ‘organizing extremist activity.’. Authorities initiated a criminal case against him and on July 14 he was sentenced to house arrest for two months. Dennis Christensen, a Danish Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years in prison in Russia, walks down a hallway. to have arrested a group of Jehovah's Witnesses, Texas Has Assaulted the Constitutional Right to Abortion, Texas Has Taken a Big Step To Protect Innocent Human Life. the defendants’ names as well as those of the defense lawyers and prosecutors. The State Department's point person on religious liberty is calling for the Jehovah's Witnesses imprisoned in Russia to be released. Traktorozavodsky District Court of Volgograd (4 Opolchenskaya St., Volgograd). ^ par. Doctors diagnosed Baranovskaya with a cerebral infarction, or ischemic stroke, in summer 2020. ", "The whole logic of the accusation was based on the speculative thesis that faith in God is 'a continuation of the activities of an extremist organization,' said spokesperson Jarrod Lopes. The "war on terror" appeared more effective in eroding international human rights principles than in countering international "terrorism". Russian police on Wednesday announced the detention of an unspecified number of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW), along with raids on 16 different properties in the Moscow area. Feeling sorry for the family, Aleksey’s employer has provided practical help. 11/2019, Russia, U.N. Doc. That same month, officials in northwestern Siberia claimed to have arrested a group of Jehovah's Witnesses for preaching their superiority over other religious groups. Police forces raid homes in Saratov. The men were charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code, which bans "organization of activities of an extremist organization.". In pretrial detention or sentenced to prison: 50, Since February 2018, law enforcement officers have followed a general pattern when arresting and detaining Jehovah’s Witnesses. On Saturday, the U.S. State Department decried the conviction. As of August 19, 2021, there are 50 Witnesses who are in pretrial detention or sentenced to prison, 34 who are under house arrest, and 233 who are not allowed to leave their hometown. ^ par. Some 30 Witnesses, including an 83-year-old woman, were taken for questioning. . Dennis Christensen was granted early release after serving over three years of a six-year prison sentence. 21.09.2021. Later, he graduated from the University of Economics, specializing in finance. Violent persecution mounting of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea. Baranovskaya’s defense plans to appeal the sentence, which has not yet come into force. To continue reading login or create an account. "They should be freed.". Found inside – Page 1979Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses are now an "extremist group", according to a new ruling AP Photo. On November 5, 2019, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Tomsk sentenced Mr. Klimov to six years in prison for allegedly ‘organizing extremist activity.’ Mr. Klimov will be released in July 2023. PRIVACY POLICY, https://assetsnffrgf-a.akamaihd.net/assets/m/1013159/univ/art/1013159_univ_sqr_xl.jpg, Share According to Memorial, at least 388 people are currently being prosecuted for belonging to this religious movement, banned in Russia … RUSSIA “Imprisoned for Their Faith” infographic has been updated. Additionally, 173 Jehovah’s Witnesses were under orders forbidding them from leaving their hometown and 379 were under criminal investigation. In February, two Jehovah's Witnesses were sentenced to prison. Konstantin Bazhenov, Aleksey Budenchuk, Feliks Makhammadiyev, Roman Gridasov, Gennadiy German, and Aleksey Miretskiy were criminally charged after Russian authorities raided seven homes of Witnesses in Saratov on June 12, 2018. Biblical theology and doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah’s Witnesses Paulos Eyasu, Isaac Mogos, and Negede Teklemariam were imprisoned in Eritrea since 1994. On February 10, 2021, Abinskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory convicted Mr. Ivshin. Several male Witnesses, including Andrzej Oniszczuk, who is a Polish citizen, are arrested and placed in pretrial detention. RUSSIA. In Russia and Crimea, there have been 227 criminal cases involving 492 Jehovah’s Witnesses, Lopes said in the press release. Roman Baranovsky and Valentina Baranovskaya, A court in southern Siberia has sentenced a woman Jehovah’s Witness to a real prison term for the first time as part of Russia’s ongoing campaign against members of the Christian denomination, the religious group, In a statement emailed to The Moscow Times, the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization said. Found insideThis is just one of the many fascinating stories former intelligence officer John Fahey has uncovered in the archives of Australia, MI5 and the CIA. This ruling criminalizes Jehovah's Witnesses who express their beliefs and allows the Russian government to liquidate any property held by the organization. . 21.09.2021. Police forces raid homes in Omsk. As a result, a criminal case was initiated against them. Vladimir Alushkin is arrested and placed in pretrial detention. “Some of those Witnesses have been imprisoned for more than 20 years. A court database containing the judge’s name and the criminal extremism case on which she handed down the verdict has withheld the defendants’ names as well as those of the defense lawyers and prosecutors. Therefore, although the present opinion concerns the particular circumstances of Mr. Mikhaylov, the Working Group wishes to emphasize that its findings in this opinion apply to all others in situations similar to that of Mr. Mikhaylov.” *—UN Human Rights Council, Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its 84th session: No. To see a list of all of Jehovah’s Witnesses currently imprisoned for their faith in Russia, click on the link below. Three of the men were taken into custody and spent nearly a year in pretrial detention. | He has been curious since childhood, and he is fond of architecture, building models of sailing ships, and studying history. The case is the latest in a crackdown against the religious group, which Russia had banned. Halya Coynash. According to an online news report published on a Stetson University website, on February 6, 2020, prison guards of Penal Colony No. "The agents stripped the men naked, put a bag over each suspect's head, and wrapped it with tape. All have been charged with organizing, participating in, or financing the activity of an “extremist” organization. Danish member Dennis Christensen was arrested that year for leading a prayer meeting and … The European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses estimates that between 5,000 to 10,000 of its members have fled Russia since the ban came into force. Three other Witnesses, Gennadiy German, Roman Gridasov, and Aleksey Miretskiy are ordered to sign an agreement not to leave the city. The Russian Supreme Court recently sanctioned Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist group. Halya Coynash. On June 23, 2020, the Lgovskiy District Court in the Kursk Region mitigated the remainder of Mr. Christensen’s sentence to a fine of 400,000 rubles ($5,759, U.S.). In reality, they are prosecuting Jehovah’s Witnesses for peaceful worship. A Russian court has convicted a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for engaging in so-called "extremist activity" -- one of the harshest penalties imposed since a ban on the faith in 2017. The appeal is based on false reports that Mr. Christensen did not have a favorable prison record. Heavily armed police forcibly enter Witnesses’ homes, often pointing guns at the heads of the residents—including children and the elderly—and forcing them to the floor. (RNS) — … The six convictions on extremism charges were overturned because of a violation of Russia’s criminal procedure code. The life of two Jehovah’s Witnesses under threat in prison. Independent media outlets and journalists in Russia are being increasingly targeted with “foreign agent” Moscow, the Old Believers in defence of Jehovah's Witnesses. Abinskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentences Aleksandr Ivshin to seven and a half years in prison. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with religious and state representatives across Russia, this book explores religious policy as both a gauge of Kremlin commitment to democratic values and a reflection of national identity. The Baranovskys’ sentencing “takes the repression against Jehovah’s Witnesses to a new level,” said Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative for the European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Prior to the sentencing of Gennady Shpakovsky to 6.5 years in prison in February, the longest prison term given to a Jehovah’s Witness was the six-year sentence Danish citizen Dennis Christensen received in 2019, in the Kursk Region. Jehovah’s Witnesses: mass searches, conditional and real sentences Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses continues in the Russian regions. Russia has raided the homes of 433 Jehovah’s Witnesses, investigated 423 and imprisoned 45. HRWF (20.09.2021) – Dmitriy Terebilov is the 23 rd Jehovah’s Witness to be sentenced to a prison term this year.. Terebilov was born in 1980 in Kostroma. They have also filed 57 applications with the European Court of Human Rights. Agents then tied each suspect's hands behind his back, smashed his fingers, and beat him on his neck, feet and kidney area," the church said in a statement to Newsweek in February. "A vivid depiction of the hysterical and brutal suppression of the Witnesses during the 1930s and 1940s and how their legal resistance transformed the civil liberties of all Americans. RUSSIA. Danish member Dennis Christensen was arrested that year for leading a prayer meeting and … Mr. Meleshko was later charged with the crimes of “giving and listening to lectures based on religious literature” and “participating in a collective discussion of religious books.” On August 11, 2021, after two days of court hearings, the Abinskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory convicted Mr. Meleshko and sentenced him to three years in prison. 2019: The first Jehovah’s Witness in post-Soviet Russia was sentenced to prison for religious reasons. Danish member Dennis Christensen was arrested that year for leading a … The history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe has always been one of persecution. This third volume documents this history, turning eastward. "The agents poured water over the men, shocked them with a stun gun in the anus area—gradually increasing the strength of the shock." Sentenced Mr. Baranovskiy to six years of a six-year prison sentence to probation for the future of. 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