Eight of nine members of the Jehovah's Witnesses sentenced to prison on Tuesday are seen here posing for a photo in a Russian courtroom in April. Photo courtesy of Jehovah's Witnesses/Release March 6 ...

Dmitriy Barmakin poses for a photo with his wife, Yelena. On Tuesday, Barmakin was sentenced to eight years in a Russian penal colony for charges related to the practicing of his Jehovah's Witnesses ...

Masked law enforcement officers carried out mass raids on the Jehovah's Witnesses across Russia on Tuesday and made a number of arrests as part of a new criminal case against the group, the ...

A court in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to eight years in prison amid a crackdown on the religious group. The court sentenced Dmitry Barmakin on April 27 ...

MOSCOW – Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday banned Jehovah’s Witnesses from operating anywhere in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be ...

Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible. Most of the pamphlets are in Russian or ...

A court in the Russian Far Eastern town of Belogorsk on September 13 sentenced a 71-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who has cancer to four years in prison after finding him guilty of organizing activities ...

A Russian court has sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses to four years in prison after finding them guilty of extremism, the religious group said on Wednesday.

March 6 (UPI) --Nine Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted in Russia in connection to practicing their religion, according to the church, making them the latest victims of the Kremlin's ongoing ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Following nearly five years of litigation and three trials, a 49-year-old man has been sentenced by a judge in far eastern Russia to eight year's imprisonment for practicing his Jehovah ...