US agency accuses Russia of abusing anti-extremism laws
World Watch Monitor Russia’s anti-extremism laws are being used to crack down on peaceful religious minorities such as Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Hare Krishnas, the top US religious-freedom watchdog says. A report commissioned by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom found that “vague and problematic definitions of ‘extremism’ in Russian law give the authorities […]
Russia a major violator of religious freedom, says US commission
RNS The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: 2017 Annual Report. PICTURE: USCIRF The US State Department should add Russia to its list of the worst violators of religious freedom, a US commission declared in its annual report. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, founded to advise the Federal Government on the issue, […]