Two employees of the department were accused of human rights violations and involvement in torture of seven members of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization. The State Department has banned UK employees and their relatives from entering the States. The US State Department imposed sanctions on high-ranking officials of the Russian Investigative Committee ...

Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $35 million to a Montana woman who reported childhood sexual abuse to elders who chose not to tell authorities. The judge must review the jury's decision on the fine. The Jehovah's Witnesses organization in the United States is planning to appeal. ...

Over the past two weeks, police wearing balaclavas and carrying machine guns have raided the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in four Russian cities, Newsweek reports. “This is a new wave of persecution. We don’t know what’s going on,” said Yaroslav Sivulsky, a Jehovah’s Witnesses follower from Russia who...