RUSSIA: First Jehovah's Witness ban conviction, more trials underway

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RUSSIA: First Jehovah's Witness ban conviction, more trials underway

 

Friday 12 July 2019

 

 

In the first conviction deriving from the Supreme Court ban on all Jehovah's Witness activity, Aleksandr Solovyov was fined nearly a year's

average local wages, although prosecutors had sought to jail him. Six more trials – of 13 defendants – are underway or imminent.

 

RUSSIA: First Jehovah's Witness ban conviction, more trials underway

 

http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2493

 

By Victoria Arnold, Forum 18

 

A Jehovah's Witness in the Urals has become the first person to be convicted of "extremist activity" after the Supreme Court's 2017 ban on all

Jehovah's Witness activity in Russia. The 49-year-old Aleksandr Solovyov was fined nearly a year's average local wages, although prosecutors had sought to jail him.

 

The trials of 13 defendants (three women and 10 men) in six more cases have already begun or appear imminent. Prosecutors submitted these cases to court between late May and early July. Full hearings have already begun in two cases (see below)....

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I'm praying for these friends and rejoicing over this promise:

Digging for Spiritual Gems: (8 min.)2Th 1:7, 8​—In what sense will the revelation of Jesus and the angels be “in a flaming fire”? (it-1 834 ¶5)

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I wonder how much of a burden these trials will be on their courts?

 

We will defend our worship vigorously in each instance, no exceptions.