{"id":6438,"date":"2022-09-22T16:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:49:49","slug":"seven-jehovahs-witnesses-handed-prison-terms-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/seven-jehovahs-witnesses-handed-prison-terms-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Handed Prison Terms In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Russia&#8217;s southwestern Rostov region amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group that has been banned in Russia since 2017.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6439\" style=\"width: 1023px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6439\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jwrussia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jwrussia.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jwrussia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jwrussia-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6439\" 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 the Kremlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses&#8217; Russian website said on September 21 that a court in Gukovo sentenced Aleksei Gorely and Oleg Shidlovsky to 6 1\/2 years in prison on September 20 and handed seven-year prison terms to Nikita Moiseyev, Aleksei Dyadkin, Yevgeny Razumov, and Vladimir Popov.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the website, Gorely has a 7-year-old son, and the wife of Shidlovsky had three strokes since her husband and the other men were arrested in August 2020 after their homes were searched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>All six were charged with extremism.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the faith was outlawed, dozens of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have had cases launched against them, with many sentenced to prison in Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has condemned Russia&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses and other peaceful religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. {ttps:\/\/www.rferl.org}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Russia&#8217;s southwestern Rostov region amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group that has been banned in Russia since 2017. 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