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UN rights chief ‘deeply concerned’ over Jehovah’s Witness sentencing in Russia

UN rights chief ‘deeply concerned’ over Jehovah’s Witness sentencing in Russia

Feb 08, 2019, at 08:46 am

New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): The sentencing in Russia of a Danish Jehovah’s Witness on Thursday to six years in prison on charges of “organising the activity of a banned extremist organisation” has been described as a “dangerous precedent” by the UN human rights chief.