The news report is short on details. The child dies 2 weeks after the accident and the Russian authorities blame the cause of death on his mother's refusal to allow a blood transfusion? So...in Russia the JW literature is banned, their meetings and assemblies disrupted, some JWs arrested and harrassed etc, but a JW woman is allowed to let her son die for lack of blood? Makes no sense.
We're talking Russia here where freedom of the press and religion is being strangled. Witnesses are vilified in Russia, their religious beliefs are not respected. Surely their blood beliefs are also disregarded when it comes to minor children. The mother is being used as an example, imo, nothing more.
I'm no longer a Witness but that does not mean I go along with the human rights violations and repressive actions of governments against the Witnesses or any other religious belief. Journalists who dare to speak the truth about the Russian government are being targeted in Russia and some have been killed. The world does not revolve around the Witnesses only. Sure their beliefs are wanting but every religion and every government is to varying degees wanting as well. JWs kill themselves and their children by refusing blood transfussions, other religions have killed others for merely refusing to convert and governments have at times killed their young men and women merely for political reasons or foolish posturing.
People are the same wherever we go.