Jehovah’s Witness jailed for six years for being ‘extremist’

A RUSSIAN court has given a six-year prison sentence to a Danish Jehovah’s Witness, the first member to be convicted since the pacifist Christian sect was banned as extremist.

A judge in the city of Oryol found Dennis Christensen (46) guilty of “organising the activity of an extremist organisation”. Investigators accused Christensen, who was held at a prayer meeting, of holding fundraisers and attracting new followers with religious pamphlets.

Christensen said he was being persecuted “for being a religious believer who loves his neighbour as himself”. (© Daily Telegraph London)