A spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses has said that Russian investigators have brutally tortured adherents of the group who are currently held in detention.
The Moscow Times: 7 Jehovah’s witnesses brutally tortured in Russia
Dennis Christensen is escorted inside a courthouse following the verdict announcement in the town of Oryol on February 6, 2019. - A Russian court on February 6, 2019 sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for "extremism", in the first conviction of its kind since a 2017 law that outlawed the religious group.
