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A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a 69-year-old mother to jail for her religious beliefs, becoming the first woman jailed amid the Kremlin s continued crackdown on Jehovah s Witnesses.
First Woman Jehovah’s Witness Sentenced to Prison in Russia Feb. 24, 2021 Roman Baranovsky and Valentina Baranovskaya JW.org
A court in southern Siberia has sentenced a woman Jehovah’s Witness to a real prison term for the first time as part of Russia’s ongoing campaign against members of the Christian denomination, the religious group said.
The court in the republic of Khakassia’s regional capital of Abakan ruled that Valentina Baranovskaya, 69, and her son Roman Baranovsky continued to perform religious activities despite the Russian Supreme Court’s 2017 ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses as “extremist.” Baranovskaya has been sentenced to two years after being found guilty on criminal charges of participation in a banned organization.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has sentenced a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to 7.5 years in prison, a spokesman for the religious denomination said, while in Moscow state investigators opened a new criminal investigation into the group.
Russia’s Supreme Court branded the Jehovah’s Witnesses an “extremist” organisation in 2017 and ordered it to disband. Since then authorities have detained hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses and convicted dozens on extremism charges.
In the southern region of Krasnodar, Alexander Ivshin, 63, was sentenced to 7.5 years in a penal colony, after being accused of organising activities on behalf of a banned group, spokesman Yaroslav Sivulsky of the European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses said in a statement.