Russia must “immediately cease” persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a State Department spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday evening.
The statement is a response to news that Russian agents had arrested five more Jehovah’s Witnesses for their faith days after the United States condemned Russian persecution of religious groups.
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