In the Moscow region, the traffic police, under the pretext of “checking the transportation of extremist literature,” detained the car of a Jehovah’s Witness.

On March 12, traffic police officers detained a Gazel car driven by Jehovah's Witness Yury Gusev at the 81st kilometer of the Ryazan Highway. As the reason for the detention, they called "checking the transportation of extremist literature." Yu. Gusev was transporting religious literature, but, according to Credo.ru , it is not included in the Federal List of Extremist Literature.

The driver was taken to the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Voskresensky municipal district of the Moscow region, where the investigator began investigating the situation.

It should be reminded that according to the decision of the Rostov Regional Court dated September 11, 2009, was liquidated the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog. On October 1, 2009, the city court of Gorno-Altaisk recognized 18 publications of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist.

for transporting Jehovah's Witness literature In the Krasnodar Territory, two people were fined .

Sources

• Traffic police officers detained a Jehovah's Witness in the Moscow region who was transporting literature not recognized as "extremist" // Portal-Credo.ru. 2010. March 12.