Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar
A very bad year for religious liberty got worse earlier this month when the Russian Supreme Court upheld a regional court ruling prohibiting Jehovah’s Witnesses from gathering to worship and banning their publications as “extremist” literature.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia are not alone. As documented by the U.S. State Department’s 2009 report on International Religious Freedom released in October, conditions are…
