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Appellate court orders new trial for Jehovah's Witness

BIROBIDZHAN COURT OVERTURNS SENTENCE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESS AND REMANDS CASE FOR NEW CONSIDERATION

OVDInfo, 10 March 2022

 

On 9 March, the [appellate] court in the Jewish autonomous oblast overturned the sentence of the Jehovah's Witness Svetlana Monis and returned the case for a new consideration. This was reported by a portal devoted to persecution of believers.

 

The believer was found guilty on 15 February 2021 of participating in the activity of a forbidden organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of CC) by a court in Birobidzhan and it sentenced her to a fine of 10,000 rubles. An appeals court increased the severity of the sentence on 12 May and gave Monis a suspended prison sentence of two and a half years. On 9 December, the ninth cassation court in Vladivostok remanded the case for a new review in the appeals court. (tr. by PDS, posted 10 March 2022)

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