Elsewhere, in western Uzbekistan’s Khorezm region, Judge Gayrat Sabirov of Urgench [Urganch] Criminal Court on 24 July ordered that Christian literature owned by Zoya Varakina should be confiscated and destroyed. The verdict notes that Varakina’s home was raided on 9 June by Urgench City Police, who found and confiscated 14 Christian books and 64 leaflets. [...]

After initially denying it, Officer Senichev (who refused to give his first name) of Kaluga Police in central Russia admitted to Forum 18 News Service that eleven armed officers with dogs had interrupted the 28 February Sunday morning service of St George’s Lutheran congregation. “We had a call on the hotline that extremist literature was [...]

The European Union has reportedly formed an association to protect the rights of Christians in countries where they face persecution. “We’ve set up a working group and are defining what bilateral action can be taken between Europe and the individual countries where Christians’ rights are in danger,” said Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Jeff King, president [...]

Persecution seems to be heightened in Uzbekistan as several more Christians are imprisoned or fined for sharing their faith with children.
Baptist deacon Pavel Nenno in Uzbekistan was sentenced to 15 days in prison for feeding needy children. According to Forum 18, other believers say that he was simply “feeding neglected children from poor families.” As [...]

Ivan Mikhailov, a Messianic Jew, has today (1 February) had a three-month jail term imposed on him by a court in Belarus for refusing compulsory military service. His brother-in-law told Forum 18 News Service that “The sentence has nothing to do with justice.” His lawyer, Svetlana Gorbatok, argued that the absence of an Alternative Service [...]

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Prior to the hearing of the appeal scheduled for 4 December on the sentencing of three Baptists in Uzbekistan, the European Baptist Federation (EBF) has demanded that the country’s President, Islam Abduganievich Karimov (Tashkent), assure a fair trial. General-Secretary Tony Peck (Prague) and Christer Daelander (Stockholm), Chairman of the EBF’s working group on religious freedom, [...]

The human rights tour in support of Belarus, arranged by a society “The Other Europe” and “Libery of Faith continued”. In Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday took place a meeting with local Christian intellectuals. On the meeting conversation turned to creation of a prayer chain around Baltic sea. The participants of the chain would pray for [...]

On November 19-20 in Tallin (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) a Belarussian human rights advocate, expert of the Humanitarian Technologies Agency (Minsk), Denis Hil made a speach. The subject of the meeting was a presentation of the report about problem of faith right violations in Belarus.
Representatives of Finish and Baltic public organizations took part in [...]

International Research conference was held on October 21-22st, 2009 at Volgograd State University. The conference was supported by Advisory council with the Representative of Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Volgograd Region Administration and Russian Association of Religious scholars.
At the conference Russian and foreign scientists shared their research results in the area of interreligious and [...]