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Monday, September 6, 2010

A group of Jehovah’s Witnesses was arrested in Russia for alleged extremism, RIA Novosti said Friday.

They were held in the southwestern Siberian city of Omsk on suspicion of circulating books and pamphlets banned by the Russian authorities, the state-owned news agency reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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For Immediate Release
April 19, 2010

Thousands imprisoned, some still not charged with any crime

ASMARA, Eritrea—International human rights organizations tally the members of religious minorities imprisoned in Eritrea at over 3,000. Among them are 58 Christian men, women and children who are Jehovah’s Witnesses. More than nine months ago, on June 28, 2009, police arrested 23 Witnesses, including women and children as young as two years old, who were meeting peacefully in a private home. The husbands and fathers were already in prison, having been collected up long before. The eldest of the women and some of the children were later released, but two of the children—now three and four years old—are still imprisoned along with their mothers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Clare Baker, 87: Doctor helped develop ‘bloodless’ open heart surgery

San Grewal
Dr. Clare Baker certainly lived up to the name of the town where he was raised: Biggar, Sask. [...]

Less blood is really more, transfusion critics say

Cutting back on blood use could halt infections, illness — and even death
By JoNel Aleccia
SEATTLE — As a doctor and [...]

Heart surgery with no blood transfusion

You can trust the doc to sometimes do even the impossible. Doctors at Fortis Hospital in the city, have successfully [...]

Strategies for transfusion-free radical retropubic prostatectomy in Jehovah’s Witnesses

by Leonardo Oliveira Reis, MD, MSc, et al.
Monday, 09 August 2010
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) – Radical retropubic prostatectomy is associated historically [...]