Russia Sentences 4 Jehovah’s Witnesses to Lengthy Prison Terms

A Russian court has sentenced four members of Jehovah's Witnesses to up to seven years in prison, the religious organization said Monday.

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Men in the Far East town of Birobidzhan were accused of organizing and

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financing "extremist" activities by holding joint worship services.

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He was detained in May 2018 as part of a special operation

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involving 150 security agents raiding 22 homes – codenamed "Judgment Day".

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More than four years later, the city court found the worshipers - Sergei Shulyarenko,

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Valery Krieger, Alam Aliyev and Dmitry Zagulin - guilty of extremism.

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