Persecution Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Russia (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, community-edited. Reliable for three dated hops: the 1951 mass deportation to Siberia under Stalin, Operation North; the transition to legal status following the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse, though with continued government interference the article names explicitly; and the Russian Supreme Court's ruling of 20 April 2017, which liquidated the group's Saint Petersburg headquarters and all 395 local religious organisations as "extremist", the first time a registered national centralised religious organisation received that designation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/