A Jehovah's Witness charged in connection with distributing religious literature was found not guilty of "inciting religious hatred and enmity" on Thursday after a six-month trial in the Siberian city of Gorno-Altaisk.
#JLF First moment of fear: Hindi TV reporter pushing camera in my face to ask, "Are you not guilty of provoking religious violence?" #JLF The organizers offered Scotch.
Jehovah's Witnesses have been officially banned from Taganrog since 2009, after a local court ruled the organisation guilty of inciting religious hatred by "propagating the exclusivity and supremacy" of their religion, something which activists say is typical of almost all religions.
Those found guilty of violence against religious minorities are treated with remarkable clemency.
A new lawsuit centered around the University of Iowa has two sides claiming the other is guilty of discrimination, pitting religious freedoms against gay rights.
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, an organization supporting both religious freedom and the separation of church and state, blogged, "Every time the public school science curriculum properly refuses to teach creationism, it is guilty of teaching a religious world view?
Indonesia has more than 190m Muslims, and the government is occasionally guilty of pandering to the religious right.
Three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in a prison colony.
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, alongside fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich, had been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral.
