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Vladimir Bukin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On October 25, 2022, the Tyndinskiy District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Bukin to six years and six months in…

Valeriy Slashchev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On October 25, 2022, the Tyndinskiy District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Slashchev to six years and…

Sergey Yuferov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On October 25, 2022, the Tyndinskiy District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Yuferov to six years and six…

Mikhail Burkov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On October 25, 2022, the Tyndinskiy District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Burkov to six years and two months…

Andrey Danielyan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 7, 2022, the Rubtsovsk City Court of the Altai Territory sentenced Danielyan to six years in prison…

Aleksandr Seredkin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On April 19, 2019, authorities detained Seredkin after executing raids on Jehovah Witnesses homes in…

Boris Andreyev is detained for his religious belief and activity.

On October 6, 2022, authorities in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Territory, arrested Andreyev following searches on the homes of…

Natalya Sharapova is detained for her religious belief and activity.

On October 6, 2022, authorities in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Territory, arrested Sharapova following searches on the homes…

Anatoliy Li is detained for his religious belief and activity.

On October 12, 2022, authorities in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Territory, arrested Li. The week before, authorities searched the…

Aleksandr Dubovenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 1, 2022, the Armyansk City Court of the Republic of Crimea - Russian-occupied Ukraine - sentenced…

Aleksandr Litvinyuk is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 1, 2022, the Armyansk City Court of the Republic of Crimea - Russian-occupied Ukraine - sentenced…

Valeriy Kriger is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 19, 2022, the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced Kriger to seven…

Sergey Shulyarenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 19, 2022, the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced Shulyarenko to…

Sergey Kardakov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Kardakov to six years and…

Sergey Yermilov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Yermilov to six years and…

Adam Svarichevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Svarichevskiy to six…

Anton Olshevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Olshevskiy to six years…

Sergey Afanasiyev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Afanasiyev to six years…

Leonid Druzhinin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 28, 2022, the Zeya District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Druzhinin to six…

Yevgeniy Bitusov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On December 28, 2022, the Zeya District Court of the Amur Region sentenced Bitusov to six…

Nikolay Voishchev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On October 20, 2022, authorities in Maykop detained Voishchev after searching his home. Investigators accused…

Aleksey Trofimov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Trofimov after searching the homes of several…

Dmitriy Malevaniy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Malevaniy after searching the homes of several…

Olga Panyuta is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Panyuta after searching the homes of several Jehovah…

Dmytro Naukhatsky is under house arrest for his religious activity. 

On December 8, 2022, authorities in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Naukhatsky after accusing him of…

Sergey Romanov is detained for his religious belief and activity.

On June 2, 2023, authorities placed Romanov in a temporary detention facility after accusing him of organizing and holding…

Ivan Neverov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In February 2023, Russian authorities arrested Neverov and charged him with organizing "extremist activities" (Art. 282.2-1…

Mikhail Shevchuk is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

In February 2023, Russian authorities arrested Shevchuk and charged him with extremism for being a Jehovah's…

Pavel Kazadaev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On May 26, 2023, the Industrial District Court of Barnaul imposed a three-year suspended sentence on Kazadaev for…

Bokurezion Dawit is detained for his religious belief. 

In March 2023, Eritrean authorities detained Dawit and took him to Barentu Prison camp for his neutral stand on patriotic issues…

Tewoldemedhin Habtezion is detained for his religious belief and association.

In February 2023, authorities arrested Habtezion because his son would not sing the national anthem and was…

Andemeskel Kidane is detained for his religious belief and association.

In March 2023, authorities arrested Kidane after his two 11-year-old children were expelled from school for…

Yonas Tekeste is detained for his religious belief.

In February 2022, authorities arrested Tekeste for conscientiously objecting to continuing to serve in the military after…

Isak Tekle is detained for his religious belief.

In November 2022, authorities arrested Tekle for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…

Tigist Tekle is detained for her religious belief and activity.

In December 2022, authorities arrested Tekle for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a…

Tekle Yoab is detained for his religious belief and activity.

In November 2022, authorities arrested Yoab and his wife for refusing to give money to the national defense.…

Kdisti Tesfamichael is detained for her religious belief and activity.

In November 2022, authorities arrested Tesfamichael and her husband for refusing to give money to the national…

Tesfay Kiflay is detained for his religious belief and association.

In March 2023, authorities arrested Kiflay because his daughter refused to sing the national anthem and was expelled…

Rimon Yonas is detained for his religious belief.

In October 2022, authorities arrested Yonas for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…

Yanet Yonas is detained for her religious belief.

In December 2022, authorities found and arrested Yonas, a Jehovah's Witness who had gone into hiding during a military…

Yevgeny Bushev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 7, 2023, the Kalininsky District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced Bushev to seven years in prison for “…

Aleksey Gerasimov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 7, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Kazan sentenced Gerasimov to six years in prison for “…

Aleksandr Serebryakov is detained for his religious activity and belief.

On September 19, 2023, authorities detained Serebryakov following searches on Jehovah's Witness homes in…

Aleksey Khabarov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On October 20, 2023, the Porkhov District Court of the Pskov Region sentenced Khabarov to two years and six…

Dmitriy Chausova is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Chausova after searching the homes of several Jehovah's…

Oksana Chausova is under house arrest for her religious belief and activity. 

On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Chausova after searching the homes of several…

Nikolay Kupriyanskiy is under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.

On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Kupriyanskiy after searching the homes of several…

Anton Virich is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On July 11, 2023, authorities in Uzhur detained Virich and subsequently disappeared him for nine days until friends found…

Marina Chaplykina is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On December 18, 2023, the Novosibirsk District Court sentenced Chaplykina to four years in prison for “…

Valeriy Maletskov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In April 2019, authorities placed Maletskov under house arrest following raids on several Jehovah's Witness…

Aleksandr Chagan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On February 29, 2024, the Central District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara Region sentenced Chagan to eight years in…

Stanislav Kim is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Kim to eight years and two months in prison for “organizing…

Vitaliy Zhuk is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Zhuk to eight years and four months in prison for “organizing…

Nikolai Polevodov is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Polevodov to eight years and six months in prison for “…

Letebrhan Tesfay is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, police officers arrested 85-year-old Letebrhan Tesfay while raiding her home as she hosted a peaceful…

Sidon Tekeste is detained for her religious belief and activity. 

In November 2024, authorities arrested Tekeste at school for respectfully refusing to contribute to a political fund.…

Berekti Habte is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, police officers arrested Habte while she attended a peaceful religious gathering. Authorities confined her in…

Aleksandr Neverov is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In the winter of 2023, Russian authorities arrested Neverov for participating in Jehovah's Witness meetings, discussing…

Tigisti Tsehaye is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Tsehaye and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Hideat Gebrehiwet is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwet and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…

Selam Tsehaye is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Tsehaye and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Hiwet Isak is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Isak and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…

Okba Amare is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Amare and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…

Tsige Ghebremedhin is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Ghebremedhin and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…

Almaz Gebrehiwot is detained for her religious belief and activity. 

In November 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwot for refusing to join or contribute financially to the ruling…

Bereket Araya is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Araya and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Elen Goitom is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Goitom and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Amanuel Araya is detained for his religious activity.

In September 2024, authorities detained Araya and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting at…

Keseteberhan Negusse is detained for his religious belief. 

In February 2024, authorities detained Negusse after learning he was a Jehovah's Witness. Negusse, a landlord, had attempted…

Zesani Biniam is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

In November 2024, authorities arrested Biniam at the Asmara Technical School for conscientiously objecting to…

Fitsum Goitom is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Goitom and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Hadassa Zerisenay is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Zerisenay and 16 other Jehovah's Witnesses during a peaceful religious meeting in a…

Almaz Gebrehiwot is detained for her religious belief and activity.

In November 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwot for refusing to join or contribute financially to the ruling political…

Selam Tewelde is detained for her religious belief and activity. 

In January 2024, authorities arrested Tewelde for refusing to financially support political movements as a Jehovah's…

Eyasu Yohannes is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In September 2023, mobilization soldiers arrested Yohannes on the street for conscientiously objecting to compulsory…

Teklu Gebrehiwet is detained for his religious belief and activity.

In November 2022, mobilization soldiers detained Gebrehiwet on the street for conscientiously objecting to compulsory…

Dolshi Yonas is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Yonas and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Saba Tekle is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Tekle and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…

Bereket Gebremichael is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In August 2023, mobilization soldiers arrested Gebremichael on the street for conscientiously objecting to…

Amanuel Gebremariam is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In May 2023, authorities detained Gebremariam on his way home from work for conscientiously objecting to…

Tareke Tesfamariam is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Tesfamariam and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…

Aysulu Tastaybekova is detained for her religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Tastaybekova, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing…

Tatyana Dodolina is detained for her religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Dodolina, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing activities…

Yevgeniy Abramov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Abramov, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him of organizing activities…

Vladimir Pushkov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Pushkov, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him of organizing activities…

Yana Abramova is detained for her religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Abramova, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing activities of…

Biniam Berhane is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Berhane and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Genet Zeray is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Zeray and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

Okba Dawit is detained for her religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Dawit and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…

Andrey Plekhanov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Plekhanov, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (…

Anton Novopashin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Novopashin, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"…

Gonkhi Venans Dzhakhi is detained for his religious activity. In March 2025, authorities detained Dzhakhi, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (Art. 282…

Yuriy Pichugin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Pichugin, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (Art…

Yevgeniy Dodolin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Dodolin, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him of organizing activities…