Detentions of Jehovah's Witnesses in March 2015

In February and March, in different regions, police detained Jehovah's Witnesses during the field ministry.  

From mid-February to the end of March in different 11 cases of detention of Jehovah's Witnesses by employees of the law enforcement.

Believers were detained while preaching in the village of Mari-Turek in Mari El, in the city of Bavly in Tatarstan, in Volgorechensk Kostroma region, in the village of Ivnya, Belgorod region, the city of Gavrilov Yam Yaroslavl region, the village of Kholm-Zhirkovsky, Smolensk region, in Korolev Moscow region.

Jehovah's Witnesses were detained, brought to the department, where interrogated, fingerprinted, copied passport data. Police in Mari El religious literature was confiscated from the detainee's apartment.

Sources

• Information about the manifestation of religious intolerance towards Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia from February 11 to March 31, 2015 // Communication from the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. 2015. April 1.