Turkmenistan: Jehovah's Witness sentenced to four years for faith practice

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Jehovah's Witness Merdan Amanov became the sixth known imprisoned conscientious objector when given a one-year sentence in July.

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Source/Credit: Forum 18
By Forum 18 | August 20, 2014

Same court, same judge, same four-year prison sentence, different Jehovah's Witness victim

Less than seven weeks after he had imprisoned a Jehovah's Witness on what his fellow believers insist were fabricated charges, Judge Gaigysyz Orazmuradov of Dashoguz City Court in northern Turkmenistan sentenced another Jehovah's Witness.

33-year-old Bibi Rahmanova was given a four-year prison sentence for 'assaulting a police officer and two train station employees,' charges she vigorously denied. "This decision is particularly shocking considering that Bibi is the mother of a four-year-old boy and was clearly the victim of police abuse," Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 News Service.

Bibi Rahmanova with her husband Vepa Tuvakov and their son

Rahmanova and her husband were both charged after they were detained for collecting religious literature from the train station.

Secret police, ordinary police and a state religious affairs official detained them.

Neither the religious affairs official Hudainazar Artykov nor Judge Orazmuradov would discuss the case with Forum 18. Meanwhile, Jehovah's Witness Merdan Amanov became the sixth known imprisoned conscientious objector when given a one-year sentence in July.

http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1987

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