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Russian intelligence services have spied on and filmed Jehovah s Witnesses in a bathhouse, in the latest example of persecution against the outlawed Christian group.
The snooping, carried out by Russia s Federal Security Service (FSB), was revealed at a trial in the Urals city of Perm, where five Jehovah s Witnesses received suspended sentences for “illegal” religious activities.
The video of the group s members in the bathhouse was used as evidence against the defendants in the trial, which has lasted for almost three years.
In evidence aired in court, 27 male and female members of the group met in a bathhouse in Perm to baptize new members. The FSB installed video cameras in the bathhouse where the baptism ceremony was taking place.