As of 1 January 2023, 127 Jehovah’s Witnesses were in prison in Russia for practising their faith in private homes, according to the last update of the database of religious prisoners of Human Rights Without Frontiers.
Some statistics since the ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017
- More than 790 Jehovah’s Witnesses from 19 to 85 years have been criminally charged or have been under investigation for the practice of their faith; among them, 205 were over 60 years old (more than 25%)
- Over 2000 homes have been raided by the FSB and local police
- 521 believers have appeared on the national extremist/terrorist watch list (Rosfinmonitoring), 72 of them being included in this…
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