Russia ‘Escalating’ Jehovah’s Witnesses Crackdown – HRW
Russian authorities have ramped up the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country in the past 12 months, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. The religious group estimates that 313 people have been charged or convicted since Russia’s Supreme Court banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an “extremist” organization in 2017. Eighteen worshippers were convicted in…
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