A Russian prosecutor has demanded a six and a half year sentence against Artem Gerasimov, a Jehovah’s Witness from Yalta in occupied Crimea. This is the first trial of a Jehovah’s Witness for his faith in occupied Crimea, and Russia is not only breaching its own constitution through such flagrant religious persecution, but also the Geneva Convention and other international law. As an occupying regime, Russia is prohibited from imposing its legislation on Crimea, and Ukraine does not ban the Jehovah’s Witnesses or any other faith.
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Halya Coynash: In Crimea, Jehovah’s Witness faces 6.5 years in prison
An illustration picture taken on Nov. 28, 2019 in Moscow shows an Apple map with the Crimea peninsula on a smartphone screen.
