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Forum 18 17 June 2025 RUSSIA: Foreigners face summary expulsion for illegal "missionary activity" On 5 February, amendments to the Administrative Code entered force allowing police - without having to go to court - to fine and expel from Russia foreign citizens who conduct "illegal missionary activity" Forum 18 has so far found one such case Among earlier cases, in October 2024, 85-year-old Catholic
Forum 18 - Russia - Page 1 of 48 17 June 2025 RUSSIA: Foreigners face summary expulsion for illegal "missionary activity" On 5 February, amendments to the Administrative Code entered force allowing police - without having to go to court - to fine and expel from Russia foreign citizens who conduct "illegal missionary activity" Forum 18 has so far found one such case Among earlier cases, in October 2024, 85-year-old Catholic
Forum 18 - Ukraine - Page 2 of 11 21 August 2024 UKRAINE: Real threats, but freedom of religion or belief concerns Clerics and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC) have and are facing criminal charges of justifying Russian aggression and hate speech Many have been prosecuted for criticising the rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the state's religious policies The state faces a real threat
BELARUS: They decided to fabricate a case and accuse him of espionage 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
UKRAINE: How should government deal with conscientious objectors in . . . Ukraine's Constitution specifically mentions the right to opt out of military service, at least on religious-based conscientious grounds However, the government restricts this right in peacetime to members of only ten registered religious communities, while the law does not recognise the right to alternative civilian service at all in wartime (see below)
RUSSIA: Criminal prosecution to follow fine for anti-war post? Police prosecuted Apostolic Orthodox Church Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko for allegedly "discrediting" Russia's Armed Forces in a 2022 online video On 1 April, a St Petersburg court fined him a week's average wages He quoted in court Jesus' words "blessed are the peacemakers", adding "the Church is obliged to voice precisely this position" A court spokesperson explained his conviction
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
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
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
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