Smolensk Region
Russia Loses Conscientious Workers as Attacks on Faith Go On
According to tabulations April 20, 2020, three years after the liquidation of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ communities, 332 people became victims of criminal prosecution, 166 of these undergoing imprisonment. These are honest, non-drinking workers: teachers, builders, firefighters, accountants, lawyers. Authorities ruin their career, paralyze their life.
Little Victims of Big Injustice. Children of Jehovah's Witnesses Are Detained, Interrogated, Humiliated
Since 2016, at least 18 cases of harassment of the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been recorded in various regions of Russia. Five such episodes occurred in January 2020. Dozens of minors suffered from religious persecution.
6 April 2020
In Smolensk, the investigator eased the restriction imposed on four believers from house arrest to a recognizance not to leave the place of residence. Charges still pending
25 March 2020
In Smolensk Region, the trial of Natalya Sorokina and Maria Troshina to begin on February 26, 2020
30 January 2020
In Smolensk, the investigator interrogated a 13-year-old. He was asked whether he knew the accused for faith, whether he recognized their voices, and whether he went to visit them
28 January 2020
After 191 days in the Smolensk pre-trial detention center, Valentina Vladimirova was transferred to house arrest. The decision was made by the Smolensk Regional Court
6 December 2019
In Smolensk, Tatyana Galkevich was released from prison, but Valentina Vladimirova, who was arrested with her, is still in jail already the seventh month!
2 December 2019
In Smolensk, an investigator took an 81-year-old Witness out of the sanatorium, interrogated her at the FSB for six hours, and then searched her apartment
27 November 2019
On November 22, in the frame of a criminal case against four Witnesses in Smolensk, a search was conducted in the house of a local resident Irina Marusova, who then was summoned for interrogation
26 November 2019
After 207 days in a pre-trial detention center in Smolensk, Yevgeniy Dechko was transferred to house arrest. Other defendants in this case, Valeriy Shalev and Viktor Malkov, remain in jail
26 November 2019
State excused Yevgeniy Dechko from military service because of his faith and then jailed him for this faith. Read his bio
8 June 2019
Read the biography of Victor Malkov who “turned from wolf into sheep,” but ended up in prison
8 June 2019
In Smolensk, economist Valeriy Shalev put in pretrial because of his religious convictions. His biography is published
8 June 2019
As arrests for faith resume in Smolensk, the latest defendant is Ruslan Korolev. Read his biography
8 June 2019
