Two Bible preachers, members of the Jehovah's Witnesses community, were detained in Ivanteevka

March 24, 2011 it became known about the detention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Ivanteevka.

March 17, 2011 members communities Ekaterina Zharinova and Maria Kuryatnikova were detained by the police during the sermon. The women were taken to the police station Ivanteevka, where we spent four and a half hours. Interrogations were conducted at the department inspection of things, seizure of religious literature.

According to E. Zharinova and M. Kuryatnikova, “ the police explained that Article 28 of the Constitution applies only to the Orthodox, and Jehovah's Witnesses are a sect ", and “ Detective Nemigalov shouted and threatened to put them in a cell until morning ."

Recall that on March 16 and 18 2011, the police disrupted the services of Jehovah's Witnesses in Dubna and Istra.

Sources

• Press Service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.