In March-April, twelve Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 76 years in jail in all

The European Times, in an post prepared by Willy Fautre, experiences that not only Russian citizens disagreeing about Russia’s war on Ukraine or asking Putin to stop the war are sentenced to hefty prison terms.



Jehovah’s Witnesses whose organization was banned by the Supreme Court in 2017 are arrested and sentenced to massive prison terms for merely practicing their faith in private. Furthermore, SOVA CENTER, one of several key resources of information regarding human rights and spiritual freedom in Russia, click here is about to be liquidated. 

On 27 April 2023 Judge Vyacheslav Polyga of the Moscow Jehova's wirtnesses City Court regarded the request filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Regional Public Association “Sova” and decided to approve it. The source of the documented cases hereafter is SOVA CENTER, a non-faith-based NGO.

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