Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore

The Bible Student movement from which Jehovah's Witnesses developed has been present in Singapore since 1912, although their right to practise and propagate their religion, as enshrined in Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, is not absolute. The Singapore Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses was deregistered as a society in 1972, although the movement had a resurgence in the 1990s under the banner of the International Bible Students Association. Many Witnesses have been fined for possessing religious publications and meeting in public, while others have been imprisoned for refusing to be conscripted into the Singapore Armed Forces.

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