TURKMENISTAN: Conscientious objector jailed for four years

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TURKMENISTAN: Conscientious objector jailed for four years

http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2495

By Felix Corley, Forum 18

 

Bahtiyar Atahanov, a 19-year-old Jehovah's Witness from the eastern city of

Turkmenabad [Turkmenabat], became the third conscientious objector to be

jailed so far in 2019 when he was sentenced on 15 July in the southern town

of Tejen. But unlike all nine other jailed conscientious objectors, who

were sentenced for refusing military service, Atahanov was forcibly

conscripted first. This means he was punished as a soldier trying to avoid

his obligations and received a four-year ordinary regime jail term.

 

This is the longest jail term known to have been handed to a conscientious

objector, though other prisoners of conscience have received far longer

jail terms to punish their exercise of the right to freedom of religion or

belief.

 

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[Stormswift]

I think of that video - about Sergei - so proud of our young brother ... and we all know Jehovah will open doors in his ministry even from the cell.