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    Russian Court Sentences Jehovah's Witness To 6 Years In Prison For 'Extremism'

    A string of Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted since Russia's Supreme Court banned the Christian denomination as an "extremist organization" in 2017.
    by Brakkton Booker Nov 05, 2019 2 minutes
    Sergei Klimov is the eighth Jehovah's Witness to be sentenced since ban calling the banned the religious group as an extremist organization went into effect in 2017, Reuters reports.

    A Russian court has sentenced a man to six years in prison. His crime? Being a practicing Jehovah's Witness.

    Sergei Klimov was sentenced Tuesday in the Siberian college town of Tomsk. He is one of a number of Jehovah's Witnesses to be convicted in the two

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