Six Jehovah's Witnesses Sentenced to Real Prison Terms of Up to Seven Years in Prison
On September 19, the Gukovsky City Court of the Rostov Region sentenced six Jehovah's Witnesses to terms ranging from 6.5 to 7 years in a general regime penal colony, according to a portal covering the persecution of believers of this faith in Russia. The defendants in the case, Aleksey Gorely and Oleg Shidlovsky, were sentenced to six and a half years in prison; Nikita Moiseyev, Aleksey Dyadkin, Vladimir Popov and Yevgeny Razumov were sentenced to seven years in prison.