Jehovah's Witness in Krasnoyarsk fined

At the end of June 2014, the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk found Jehovah's Witness Alexander Yevdoshenko guilty of distributing extremist materials and fined him.

On June 27, 2014, the Soviet District Court of Krasnoyarsk recognized Jehovah's Witness Alexander Evdoshenko guilty under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution extremist materials) and imposed a fine. Literature confiscated.

It was considered an offense to hand over to four people present at the services of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Solnechny microdistrict of Krasnoyarsk publications of the Witnesses included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. By information of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Evdoshenko charged with handing over to citizen Nagovitsyn, who was present at the worship service, a copy of What Does the Bible Really Teach?

The case was initiated after a statement written by himself Nagovitsyn - who, in particular, is known to be the chairman the so-called Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims Affected by Sects. IN In the message of the prosecutor's office, this is called as follows: " an active civil position of persons who have received from a religious group activist   extremist literature .

Evdoshenko denies his guilt. In addition, according to indications witnesses, May 18, 2014 (date indicated in Nagovitsyn's statement), the latter was not present at the service at all.

As a reminder, we consider the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses and the prohibition of their texts for extremism is unlawful and we perceive it as a religious discrimination.

Sources

• Representative of Jehovah's Witnesses Religious Group Confiscated Extremist Literature, Fined for Distribution // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. 2014. July 3.