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RFE/RL: Danish Jehovah’s Witness given six years for `extremism`

Published Feb. 6, 2019. Updated Feb. 6 at 12:19 pm

Dennis Christensen is escorted inside a courthouse following the verdict announcement in the town of Oryol on February 6, 2019. - A Russian court on February 6, 2019 sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for "extremism", in the first conviction of its kind since a 2017 law that outlawed the religious group.

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A Russian court has found Dennis Christensen, a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion, guilty of being part of a banned extremist organization.

The regional court in Russia’s western city of Oryol on February 6 sentenced Christensen to six years in prison.