Christian marginal groups (as victims)
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia are going through hard times. Police searches are regularly conducted in private homes to find religious literature that is on the black list of so-called extremist mater...
"Complex", "arbitrary", "unnecessary" and "expensive" re-registration process
As the compulsory re-registration of all Kazakhstan's religious communities nears completion, smaller religious communities appear to be the main communities forcibly closed down or merged, Forum 18 N...
"We need to protect the rights of the majority"
Kyrgyzstan's law-enforcement and other state agencies have been inactive, very slow to act against, or even apparently sympathetic to violent attacks on people exercising freedom of religion or belief...
Armenia: After Strasbourg punishment, will Armenian government resolve alternative service issue "for ever"?
Armenia's new Deputy Justice Minister Ruben Melikyan has told Forum 18 News Service that a government Working Group is already preparing new amendments to the Alternative Service Law ...
Church ransacked in Eastern Algeria
Armed men raided a church in Ouargla, Algeria on Wednesday, tearing down the gate to the church's compound and damaging the iron crucifix on the church's roof.
Russia: Misuse of anti-extremism legislation against non-Orthodox religions in November 2011
November 2011 was marked by a large number of wrongful prosecutions, and a jump - as was expected - in the abuse of anti-extremist legislation during the parliamentary election campaign.
Russia: Religious hate websites: a petition against A. Kuzmin and A. Dvorkin with over 13,000 signatures
Under the title "Anti-sectarian Internet websites", Religiia i pravo (18 November 2011) has published an article about hate statements repeatedly made by anti-sect activist Alexander Kuzmin against no...
Azerbaijan: Up to five years' imprisonment for uncensored religious literature?
Groups of people who produce or distribute religious literature without going through Azerbaijan's compulsory prior state censorship of all religious literature could soon face prison terms of two to ...