Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses declare state tortured them

In northern Russia, seven males have come ahead to assert they have been tortured via police as a result of their non secular perspectives. The boys are all Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their organisation was once banned via Russia’s Ultimate Courtroom in 2017 as extremist and dozens of Jehovah’s Witnesses have since been detained around the nation.

Officers in Surgut to begin with denied the experiences of torture, however now say they’ll examine. President Vladimir Putin has referred to as the prosecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses ‘utter nonsense’ and requested the Ultimate Courtroom for explanation on how the regulation is carried out.

BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford experiences.