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Jehovah's Witness in far north arrested

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS ARRESTED IN ARKHANGELSK

Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, 19 February 2019

 

In the morning of 18 February 2019 personnel of unidentified security agencies broke into the home of 39-year-old Evgeny Yakk, a resident of Arkhangelsk. After a search was conducted, he was taken away in an unknown direction and did not return home. Friends have managed to ascertain that on 19 February 2019 a session is scheduled for selection of a pretrial measure of restriction in the Lomonosov district court of Arkhangelsk. . . . (tr. by PDS, posted 19 February 2019)


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