JW Russia: Russian Jehovah's Witness gets suspended sentence for extremism - spokesman

[Isabella]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in the Russian Far East on Tuesday handed a six-year suspended jail sentence to a Jehovah’s Witness, Grigoriy Bubnov, after finding him guilty of extremist activity, a spokesman for the religious group said.

Jehovah’s Witnesses have been under pressure for years in Russia, where the dominant Orthodox Church is championed by President Vladimir Putin. Orthodox scholars have cast them as a dangerous foreign sect that erodes state institutions and traditional values, allegations they reject.

Russia’s Supreme Court ruled in 2017 that the group was an “extremist” organization and ordered it to disband, a decision that was followed by a crackdown which has seen dozens of adherents detained and hundreds hit with criminal charges.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-religion/russian-jehovahs-witness-gets-suspended-sentence-for-extremism-spokesman-idUSKBN1ZK0MC

[Arauna]

Jesus was on the podium as a political "subverter"......so we know that we will be called the same.

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

This type of action is understandable from a government or legal system that has no true spiritual guidance. They are physical thinking and only understand things of this world. But it would seem as if that is how it is supposed to be for scripture to be fulfilled. 

At least the man wasn't physically harmed or imprisoned, but he might find life a bit more difficult as it says being branded extremist, it might put some restrictions on work. 

I wonder how JWs all around the globe will hold up if these restrictions and laws spread earthwide. 

 

[Suzsanna]

Jehovah always provides for his loyal ones.