Russia sentences three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to six years for ‘threatening state security’ by discussing the Bible | Locked Faith

A Russian occupation 'court' in Sevastopol has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to six years' imprisonment purely for practising their faith. Volodymr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov were clearly not expecting justice from the 'court', and, according to human rights defender and Graty correspondent, Lutfiye Zudiyeva, each had arrived with a packed bag in anticipation of arrest. The sentences can, and will, be appealed, but thus far almost all sentences against believers in occupied Crimea have involved long prison sentences, with all left unchanged at appeal.