A total of 14 Jehovah's Witnesses have since February been short-term prisoners of conscience, with one of these still today (21 May) being detained.
Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Felix Corley | May 21, 2015
Jehovah's Witness Bahram Hemdemov has been tortured and given a four-year prison term on 19 May in Turkmenistan's eastern city of Turkmenabad, Forum 18 News Service has been told.
Prisoner of conscience Hemedmov was accused of allegedly inciting religious hatred, which his fellow Jehovah's Witnesses deny.
His real "crime" seems to have been hosting a meeting for worship.
Along with Hemdemov and many of the latest 2015 short-term prisoners of conscience, Hemdemov's son Sedar was jailed for 15 days as a prisoner of conscience and tortured.
A total of 14 Jehovah's Witnesses have since February been short-term prisoners of conscience, with one of these still today (21 May) being detained.
About 30 others have been fined.
Tortures used include beatings with bottles of water and electrocution threats. The children of Protestants and their parents have been subjected to public bullying in schools and pressure to sign statements renouncing their faith.
Protestant teachers have been fired from their jobs and summer camps for children cancelled.
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[AT] In 2014 another Jehovah's Witness, 33-year-old Bibi Rahmanova was given a four-year prison sentence in a case that many claimed was concocted by the police and prosecutors.
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