Jehovah’s Witness beaten by police and sentenced to prison in Turkmenistan

JW-Media.org 2012-02-14 - copyright by Watchtower

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan—Vladimir Nuryllayev, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was convicted of “spreading pornography” during a closed court hearing held on January 18, 2012.

The video is not part of the official release.

He was sentenced to four years of imprisonment.

In September 2011, police seized Nuryllayev’s personal religious literature from the apartment where he lived with his mother and sister. Several weeks later, two local police officers came to Nuryllayev’s home without a warrant, beat him in t