Brandon Reece Taylorian is an associate lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). The following is Part Two of a two-part post.

Introduction

Part One of this two-part post gave an overview of the range of state policies and practices that restrict importations of religious goods and provided an assessment of when customs regulations inappropriately limit FoRB. Part Two, below, focuses on two 2020 European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) cases involving restrictions on the importation of Jehovah’s Witness literature in Armenia and Azerbaijan, respectively. These cases show how states have applied their import regulations in practice, to the detriment of religious communities. Both cases also illustrate how the ECtHR determines a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the specific area of religious import restrictions.