Georgia: Police allegedly fail to protect Jehovah's Witness congregation against violent mob attack

Index Number: EUR 56/003/2001
Date Published: 1 April 2001
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Georgia

On 17 October 1999 radical supporters of the Georgian Orthodox Church reportedly attacked a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and beat them with iron crosses and wooden clubs. The police reportedly refused to come to their help.