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Public Television of Armenia
Nov 28 2011
Armenia: Jehovah's Witness imprisoned for threatening priest
A court in Yerevan's Malatia Sebastia district has sentenced a
Jehovah's Witness to six months in prison, Armenian Public TV reported
on 28 November.
The TV said the member of Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization,
Andranik Makvetsyan, was found guilty of offending, threatening and
impeding the activities of a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Public TV said priest Ter Yesayi Artenyan and Makvetsyan had a brawl
in Yerevan's St Trinity Church on 15 May when Makvetsyan and another
Jehovah's Witness were preaching in the church's premises.
[translated from Armenian]
Nov 28 2011
Armenia: Jehovah's Witness imprisoned for threatening priest
A court in Yerevan's Malatia Sebastia district has sentenced a
Jehovah's Witness to six months in prison, Armenian Public TV reported
on 28 November.
The TV said the member of Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization,
Andranik Makvetsyan, was found guilty of offending, threatening and
impeding the activities of a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Public TV said priest Ter Yesayi Artenyan and Makvetsyan had a brawl
in Yerevan's St Trinity Church on 15 May when Makvetsyan and another
Jehovah's Witness were preaching in the church's premises.
[translated from Armenian]