"We will definitely file a challenge later next week. We have 10 days to appeal. We want to approach it sensibly, lay out all arguments," Anton Bogdanov said.
Dennis Christensen was given six years in a penal colony by a court in the western city of Oryol on Wednesday for leading the religious community after the local Jehovah’s Witnesses sect was outlawed as an extremist group in 2016.
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The Dane was arrested almost two years ago. The Russian court ordered to give Christensen credit for time already served. His defence team insists he is not guilty of extremism.
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