Russia, A Jehovah’s Witness to serve two years of forced labor

On June 30, 2023, the judge of the Leninskiy District Court of Novosibirsk, Olga Kovalenko, found 45-year-old Dmitriy Dolzhikov guilty of extremism, sentenced him to three years in prison and a year of restriction of freedom, but his imprisonment was replaced with forced labour. Taking into account the period of detention of Dmitriy under arrest,  he will in fact have to serve about two years of forced labour.

Dmitry Dolzhikov did not plead guilty: “