Russia’s FSB has carried out a “mass operation” against peaceful Jehovah’s Witnesses in Dzhankoy in occupied Crimea, with a 78-year-old believer manhandled, and 46-year-old Serhiy Filatov arrested on “extremism” charges. This shameful descent into the worst practices of the Soviet regime was widely reported, though in carefully edited form, on Russian and Russian-controlled media as the “detention of extremists”, with the obligatory “Ukrainian link”.
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Halya Coynash: 78-year-old believer manhandled as Russia comes for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Crimea
A elderly woman walks in front of a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a building in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 12, 2018.
