Ukraine's Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Christian conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko â the first jailed conscientious objector...
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AZERBAIJAN: Conscientious objector’s jail term changed to suspended sentence
After 12 weeks in jail, a Ganca court changed the nine-month jail term for Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Seymur Mammadov to a one-year...
UKRAINE: Second conscientious objector jail sentence
Mykhailo Yavorsky, a 40-year-old Christian, is appealing against a one-year jail term handed down on 6 April for refusing mobilisation on grounds of...
UKRAINE: Army rejects conscientious objector alternative service transfer
Christian conscientious objector Andrii Vyshnevetsky has been refused transfer to alternative civilian service, despite from his mobilisation...
UKRAINE: Conscientious objector told “to be ready to be taken to prison”
Ivano-Frankivsk police told Protestant conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko "to be ready to be taken to prison" on 20 February. He lost his...
UKRAINE: Three years’ jail for Adventist conscientious objector to mobilisation
45-year-old Seventh-day Adventist Dmytro Zelinsky is serving his 3-year jail term for refusing mobilisation on grounds of conscience in a Kolomyia...
Ukraine’s conscientious objectors are not cowards and traitors
Evangelical Christians should stand up for people who are unjustly forcibly recruited, sent to the front and forced to kill against their declared...
AZERBAIJAN: Yet another conscientious objector case set for Strasbourg?
On 8 June, Azerbaijan's Supreme Court rejected Jehovah's Witness Seymur Mammadov's final appeal against his conviction for refusing compulsory...
AZERBAIJAN: Conscientious objector jailing “very unexpected decision”
On 22 September, a Goranboy court jailed 22-year-old Jehovah's Witness Seymur Mammadov for nine months for refusing compulsory military service on...