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For the first time in Russia, a person was convicted of belonging to a religion. It is a 69-year-old woman, a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who, according to the sentence, will remain in jail for two years. Why?
A 69-year-old one of Jehovah’s Witnesses was sentenced to two years in prison in Siberia, the first firm sentence for a faithful since the repression of this religious cult began in Russia.
“A woman, who is also elderly, was sentenced to prison for the first time,” say Jehovah’s Witnesses in a statement, in which they denounce a “sentence of unprecedented cruelty.”
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The court in Abakan, capital of the Russian republic of Khakassia, found Valentina Baranovskaya guilty of “participation in a prohibited organization”.
His son, Román Baranovsky, was sentenced to six years in prison for “organizing the activities” of the religious group.
According to the organization, 71 convictions have been handed down and nine Jehovah’s Witnesses are currently serving prison terms in Russia.
Jehovah’s Witnesses were banned in 2017 and their movement is considered “extremist” by the Ministry of Justice, a vague term that can be applied to a “terrorist” organization, a sect or opposition groups.
This cult is denounced by the powerful Russian Orthodox Church, close to the Kremlin.
The authorities carry out a policy of promoting Russian identity, based on a certain conservatism that has its roots in the Orthodox cult.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses, a movement founded in the 1870s in the United States, consider themselves the only faithful to the original Christianity.
They are regularly accused of sectarian drifts.
