Volodymyr Chertov

Russia persists in illegal prosecution of Crimean Jehovah’s Witnesses, jails man for six years — Crimean Human Rights Group

The Crimean Human Rights Group considers these lawsuits as violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. According to the Crimean human rights defenders, the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses violated Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which addresses freedom of thought, conscience, and religion