{"id":6387,"date":"2022-06-28T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:47:17","slug":"another-jehovahs-witness-gets-prison-term-in-siberia-amid-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/another-jehovahs-witness-gets-prison-term-in-siberia-amid-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Gets Prison Term In Siberia Amid Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness to six years in prison amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in the country since 2017.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6388\" style=\"width: 959px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6388\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FodNmwH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FodNmwH.png 959w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FodNmwH-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FodNmwH-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For decades, the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been viewed with suspicion in Russia, where the dominant Russian Orthodox Church is championed by President Vladimir Putin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A court in the city of Krasnoyarsk\u00a0<strong>sentenced<\/strong>\u00a0Yevgeny Zinich on June 27 after finding him guilty of organizing the activities of an &#8220;extremist organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court also ruled that Zinich will be on parole for one year after serving his term and\u00a0<strong>banned him<\/strong>\u00a0from leading public and religious organizations for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The probe against Zinich was launched in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Since the faith was outlawed, many Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been imprisoned in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, dozens of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have either been convicted of extremism or have been held in pretrial detention.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has condemned Russia&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses and other peaceful religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been viewed with suspicion in Russia, where the dominant Russian Orthodox Church is championed by President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian group is known for door-to-door preaching, close Bible study, rejection of military service, and refusal to mark national and religious holidays or birthdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness to six years in prison amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in the country since 2017. A court in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6389,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}