21-27 January 2019

JW Bulletin’s Weekly Roundup of news regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses for the week 21-27 January 2019.

News

USA

Rockford Register – 25th January 2019

• Winnebago County Jail inmate files lawsuit alleging violation of religious rights

RUSSIA

The Washington Post – 25th January 2019

• Russia must stop persecuting Jehovah’s Witnesses

UK

Examiner Live – 25th January 2019

• ‘I’m going to take you out you white b***h’ shouted woman as she assaulted Jehovah’s Witness

USA

Republican American – 24th January 2019

• Amid FBI investigation, Waterbury man dies in prison

CRIMEA

Forum 18 – 24th January 2019

• CRIMEA: Four years’ jail for mosque meetings

RUSSIA

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty – 24th January 2019

• Russian Trial Called ‘A Litmus Test For Religious Freedom’

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty – 23rd January 2019

• Russian Prosecutor Seeks Nearly Seven-Year Sentence For Danish Jehovah’s Witness

SPAIN

20 Minutos – 23rd January 2019

• Indignación por un vídeo homófobo de los Testigos de Jehová que veta el paraíso a los homosexuales
  Translation into English available HERE.

TURKMENISTAN

Forum 18 – 22nd January 2019

• TURKMENISTAN: New year, new jailed conscientious objector

RUSSIA

Reuters – 22nd January 2019

• Cast in Russia as ‘enemy within’, Jehovah’s Witnesses see Soviet history replay

Dev Discourse – 22nd January 2019

• Battle of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia deepens amid concerns over treatment

USA

6 Sq Ft – 22nd January 2019

• See renderings of Morris Adjmi’s Front & York, Dumbo’s biggest new development

New York Yimby – 22nd January 2019

• Morris Adjmi-Designed “Front And York” Revealed At 85 Jay Street In DUMBO, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Paper – 21st January 2019

• Park and rise: New designs revealed for residential towers going up on old Dumbo parking lot