At the end of July, the Court of Cassation upheld the 2 years and 6 months in prison sentence against Aleksandr Nikolaev.
The court had found him guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization, the religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In fact, he was just reading the Bible and discussing religious issues in private with relatives and friends. The investigation considered it “a crime against the foundations of the constitutional order and the security of the state”.
No evidence was presented in court that the convict had committed any unlawful acts or that his behaviour was of a socially dangerous nature.
More than 140 Jehovah’s…
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