"We are going back to the Soviet times," he said, adding that his parents were exiled to Siberia by the Soviet authorities for being Jehovah's Witnesses. The 2017 court ruling has been widely criticized by Russian and international rights groups as unlawful discrimination against a religious minority.Īccording to Sivulskiy, several thousand of the country's 175,000 Jehovah's Witnesses have left the country since the decision was handed down. Access to the site is blocked inside Russia. More than 400 Jehovah's Witnesses have been targeted by law enforcement agencies in Russia since the ban, dozens of whom were charged and convicted, the organization's Russian branch said on its website earlier this month.
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