APRIL 15, 2021
RUSSIA
Russian Court Denies Brother Aleksandr Ivshin’s Appeal
On April 15, 2021, the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld Brother Aleksandr Ivshin’s seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence. He must remain in prison. This is the harshest sentence imposed on one of Jehovah’s Witnesses since the organization was banned in 2017.