Jehovah’s Witness jailed in Russia

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for “extremism”. Danish citizen Dennis Christensen was in court in the southern Russian city of Oryol for the sentencing, spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia Yaroslav Sivulskiy said. “We deeply regret the conviction of Dennis Christensen – an innocent man who did not commit any real crime,” Sivulskiy said in a statement. –