Extremism accused Jehovah's witness jailed for 6 years in Russia

A Russian court on Wednesday found a Jehovah's Witness guilty of extremism and jailed him for six years, a spokesman for the Christian denomination said. The United States and the European Union see the case of Dennis Christensen, a Danish national, as a litmus test for religious freedom and the latest twist in a worsening East-West standoff. Christiansen, the first Jehovah's Witness to be detained for extremism in Russia, had pleaded not guilty. "Yes. It's true unfortunately," Yaroslav Sivulsky, a Jehovah's Witness spokesman, told Reuters when asked if Christiansen had been found guilty and jailed for six years.