Danish Jehovah's Witness arrested after Russia raid

Russian security forces have raided a Jehovah's Witnesses service and arrested a Danish citizen in the latest move against the Christian group since Moscow banned it as an "extremist organisation".

"Armed officers from the FSB" detained some 50 worshippers during a service Thursday in the town of Oryol, some 350 kilometres south of Moscow, a senior Jehovah's Witnesses official, Yaroslav Sivulsky, told

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