Russian Jehovah’s Witness Hit With 6-Year ‘Extremism’ Sentence

[Tbs77]

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/05/russian-jehovahs-witness-hit-with-6-year-extremism-sentence-a68035

 

Russia has imprisoned a Jehovah’s Witness from Siberia to six years in prison on charges of “extremism,” the independent Tayga.info news website reported Tuesday.

 

Sergei Klimov was detained in the city of Tomsk in June 2018 on suspicion of being an “de facto leader” of a local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russia outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017, making it a criminal offense for the group’s estimated 175,000 worshippers living in the country to meet or distribute literature....

 

[SUNRAY]

3 hours ago, Tbs77 said:

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/05/russian-jehovahs-witness-hit-with-6-year-extremism-sentence-a68035

 

Russia has imprisoned a Jehovah’s Witness from Siberia to six years in prison on charges of “extremism,” the independent Tayga.info news website reported Tuesday.

 

Sergei Klimov was detained in the city of Tomsk in June 2018 on suspicion of being an “de facto leader” of a local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russia outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017, making it a criminal offense for the group’s estimated 175,000 worshippers living in the country to meet or distribute literature....

 

 

Also NPR reports on it!

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776354474/russian-court-sentences-jehovahs-witness-to-6-years-in-prison-for-extremism

[SUNRAY]

Out of curiosity, I looked up NPR to learn more about  it. This report about our Russian brother is now on  U.S.A. news..I wonder if it will be long before mainstream TV  news channels start reporting about our persecution in Russia.

[Thesauron]

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/05/russian-jehovahs-witness-hit-with-6-year-extremism-sentence-a68035

 

Russia has imprisoned a Jehovah’s Witness from Siberia to six years in prison on charges of “extremism,” the independent Tayga.info news website reported Tuesday.

 

Sergei Klimov was detained in the city of Tomsk in June 2018 on suspicion of being an “de facto leader” of a local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Russia outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017, making it a criminal offense for the group’s estimated 175,000 worshippers living in the country to meet or distribute literature....

 

 

Whoever says that the Jehovah’s Witnesses was outlawed is wrong. They were not. Certain organisations used by us were. So imprisoning us for our faith is illegal according to Russian law. Even the NPR got it wrong.

[Tbs77]

Latest Newsweek article

 

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-court-sentences-jehovahs-witness-6-years-extremism-1469938