Crimean court jails Jehovah's Witness for religious extremism

Moscow - A court in Russian-controlled Crimea jailed a Jehovah's Witness for six years on Thursday after finding him guilty of organising the activities of a banned extremist organisation, part of a crackdown rights activists say violates religious freedom. The court in the Crimean town of Dzhankoi explained in a statement why it had found Sergei Filatov, 47, guilty, saying he had...