Die Regierung der USA hat ihren neuesten Report (für das zweite Halbjahr 2010) zur weltweiten Religionsfreiheit veröffentlicht. Ein zwei Details daraus sind auch für Zeugen Jehovas interessant, einiges dabei positiv, anderes weniger. Ich habe natürlich keine Möglichkeit, die Berichte unabhängig zu prüfen, denke aber, dass sie im wesentlichen korrekt sind. Die zitierten Berichte sind eine subjektive Auswahl dessen, was mir interessant vorkam.

Vietnam

The Jehovah's Witnesses have 55 active congregations in 18 provinces with 3,000 members.

The government held discussions about registration and recognition procedures with leaders of a number of Protestant denominations, including [...] Jehovah's Witnesses.

Ägypten

There are 1,000 to 1,500 Jehovah's Witnesses [...] but the government does not recognize either group.

The government banned Jehovah's Witnesses in 1960. Since then the government has, to varying degrees, subjected members of the Jehovah's Witnesses to harassment and surveillance. The Jehovah's Witnesses were legally registered in Cairo in 1951 and Alexandria in 1956, and their presence in the country dates to the 1930s. In January 2010 the Cairo Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jehovah's Witnesses to compel the government to recognize it as a Christian denomination. The government attributes its refusal to grant the registration to the Jehovah's Witnesses to the opposition of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which during the reporting period condemned the group as heretical, as well as to its lingering Nasser-era suspicion of links between the Jehovah's Witnesses and the State of Israel.

During the reporting period, the government refused the Jehovah's Witnesses' continued efforts to obtain legal registration.

Jehovah's Witnesses leadership reported the continuation of government harassment and interrogation of their members during the reporting period, including confiscation of religious documents and a ban on importing Bibles and other religious material. State security authorities also reportedly monitored the homes, telephones, and meeting places of Jehovah's Witnesses. Their mail was also reportedly sometimes confiscated and intended recipients summoned for interrogation by security officials that reportedly included threats of increased harassment of coreligionists, abusive language, and psychological pressure. Security agents also reportedly sought to incite animosity against them, characterizing Jehovah's Witnesses to neighbors as security threats and Zionists. Authorities also reportedly followed visiting foreign members of Jehovah's Witnesses. While Jehovah's Witnesses continue to be allowed to meet in groups of up to 30 in private buildings, they remain prevented from building dedicated places of worship. Jehovah's Witnesses have reported varying degrees of government harassment and surveillance since 1960. Witnesses reported that government harassment they experienced in 2010 declined substantially from 2006-2008.

Syrien

The Syrian government outlaws [...] Jehovah's Witnesses. In addition the government continued to monitor the activities of all organizations, including religious groups, and to discourage proselytizing, which it deemed a threat to relations among and within different faiths.

The government bans Jehovah's Witnesses, and they must conduct their activities without attracting its attention.

On October 11 Jehovah's Witnesses reported that Nader Nseir, a Syrian Jehovah's Witness, was released on bail but faced unknown charges. On July 9 Amnesty International reported that he had been held in detention since May 7, after being summoned to the Political Security branch in Latakia and pressured to inform on fellow Jehovah's Witnesses in the country. The general counsel for Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was tortured and experienced other ill-treatment.

In January 2009 according to Jehovah's Witnesses reporting, government authorities beat a Jehovah's Witnesses elder and demanded he sign a pledge that he would cease attending religious meetings, reading Jehovah's Witnesses' publications, and "sharing his faith with others."

Laos

Christian groups that have some following, but which are not recognized by the government, include [...] Jehovah's Witnesses[...]. Official membership numbers are not available.

Singapur

There are no current membership estimates for Jehovah's Witnesses [...], the two religious groups that the government has banned.

By application of the Societies Act, the government deregistered the country's congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1972 [...], making them unlawful societies. No charges were brought against persons attending or holding religious meetings in private homes during the reporting period.

Missionaries, with the exception of members of Jehovah's Witnesses [...] are permitted to work and to publish and distribute religious texts;

All written materials published by the International Bible Students Association and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, both publishing arms of Jehovah's Witnesses, remain banned by the government under the Undesirable Publications Act. [...] A person in possession of a prohibited publication can be fined up to S$2,000 ($1,500) and jailed up to 12 months for a first conviction. There were no government seizures of publications by any of these groups during this reporting period.