Russia, 147 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to heavy terms languish behind bars

On 25 October, 46-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Roman Mareev was released after having served his prison term but many others are still behind barbed wires: 147 according to the database of religious prisoners of Human Rights Without Frontiers in Brussels. In Russia, to be a Jehovah’s Witness is a worse crime than to kidnap or to rape. In comparison Anatoliy Marunov and Sergei […]