Georgia: Police allegedly fail to protect Jehovah's Witness congregation against attack by radical Georgian Orthodox Church supporters

Index Number: EUR 56/011/2001
Date Published: 18 September 2001
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Georgia

On 17 October 1999 radical supporters of the Georgian Orthodox Church are said to have 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.