Jehovah's Witness jailed in Russia for extremism, lawyer says
Alexander Marrow, Reuters
Posted at Jun 09 06:41 PM
The ruling at the Pskov City Court, handed to 61-year-old Gennady Shpakovskiy, was the harshest sentence for a Jehovah's Witness in Russia since a Supreme Court decision in 2017 ruled the Christian denomination was an extremist organization and should disband, the group said.
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