SAKI, Crimea — Three of 8 Baptists from Saki in western Crimea who refused to pay fines for holding a public religious meeting were sentenced to 20 hours of community service each between October and December 2015. Five fines were imposed by Judge Irina Shevchenko without a formal court hearing. A fine of about six weeks’ average local wages has…
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