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RUSSIA: Fined for citing Vatican, Scottish Episcopal texts A Moscow court fined an Anglican Christian three weeks' average wage under Russia's "gay propaganda" law for social media posts citing a Vatican declaration condemning "unjust discrimination" on the basis of sexual orientation and a Scottish Episcopal Church essay on equal marriage This is the first known time a court imposed such a fine for sharing church documents Amid ever-tightening laws
Forum 18: BELARUS: They decided to fabricate a case and accuse him of . . . On 1 April, the Supreme Court rejected Catholic priest Henryk Okolotovich's appeal against his 11-year jail term on treason charges Both his trial and appeal were closed In a message from prison, he denied "espionage for Poland and the Vatican" He rejected pressure to implicate the country's Catholic bishops "Priests are being persecuted to shut our mouths, so that the Catholic Church does
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Orthodox priests 14-year espionage jail term At a closed hearing at the Russian-controlled Crimean Supreme Court in Simferopol on 2 August, Zaporizhzhia Regional Court jailed 41-year-old Ukrainian Orthodox priest Fr Kostiantyn Maksimov in a strict regime labour camp for 14 years on "espionage" charges "I'm in such shock," his mother Svetlana Maksimova told Forum 18 He is likely to be illegally transferred to Russia after any appeal On
UZBEKISTAN: President to sign restrictive new Religion Law? Uzbekistan's new Religion Law [signed by the President 5 July, came into force 6 July] maintains almost all the restrictions on freedom of religion and belief in the current Religion Law It continues to ban: all exercise of freedom of religion and belief without state permission; teaching about religion without state permission; sharing beliefs; and publishing, distributing or importing
OCCUPIED UKRAINE - Forum 18 In early 2024, Russian occupation forces arrested a Protestant in her fifties for participating in a July 2023 prayer meeting in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol Prosecutors handed her criminal case to Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Regional Court In the same court is the criminal case against Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest Kostiantyn Maksimov for alleged "espionage" On 27 April
AZERBAIJAN - Forum 18 On 22 September, a Goranboy court jailed 22-year-old Jehovah's Witness Seymur Mammadov for nine months for refusing compulsory military service on conscientious grounds On 25 July – two days after his 18th birthday – officers seized conscientious objector Royal Karimov and forcibly took him to a military unit in Ganca, where he is still held Baku's Sabail District Court extended to March
TAJIKISTAN: Secret Supreme Court hearing bans Jehovahs Witnesses At the instigation of the General Prosecutor, a secret Supreme Court hearing in Dushanbe on 29 March 2021 banned Jehovah's Witnesses for a second time, nearly 14 years after they were first banned in Tajikistan No one informed the Jehovah's Witness community either before the 2021 hearing or afterwards They found out about the hearing and renewed ban only when the regime replied to the
Forum 18 - Russia - Page 1 of 50 27 February 2026 RUSSIA: Revocation of citizenship after extremism convictions "gaining momentum" Born in Soviet Uzbekistan, Rustam Diarov had his Russian citizenship revoked in February 2025 while he was in jail to punish him for participation in Jehovah's Witness meetings On 17 February 2026, prison authorities released Diarov early on health grounds and by the following evening he was in
Forum 18 - Ukraine - Page 2 of 11 4 March 2025 OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Religious freedom survey, March 2025 Freedom of religion or belief and interlinked human rights are seriously violated in Russian-occupied Ukraine Forum 18's survey analysis documents among other violations: serious systemic freedom of religion or belief violations starting with the initial March 2014 invasion; pressuring, kidnapping, torturing, jailing, and
Forum 18 24 March 2026 OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Born in Krasnodon 66 years ago, now ordered expelled On 21 March, Russia's occupation authorities in Ukraine ordered Baptist pastor Vladimir Rytikov to leave what they regard as Russian territory within two weeks "I was born here and have lived here for [nearly] 67 years, now I'm being driven out," he noted Officials have repeatedly raided the Council of
