A court in Moscow has taken away 123 properties from the Jehovah’s Witnesses and given them to the Russian government. The properties include 63 homes and business buildings totaling more than 11,000 square meters (118,000 square feet) plus 60 pieces of land totaling 5.6 hectares (13.8 acres). Russia banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an “extremist organization” in 2017, a decision the European Court of Human Rights later called illegal, and many members have since been jailed for what authorities call “extremist activity.”
