In Dzhankoy, a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses died after trial

On the night of June 27-28, the head of the local committee of Jehovah's Witnesses, Vitaly Arsenyuk, died in Dzhankoy, who had previously been accused of carrying out missionary activities in violation of the law (under Part 4 of Article 5.26 of the Administrative Code). About this on June 30, the publication “Crimea. Realities" with reference to journalist Anton Naumlyuk.

reports In the afternoon, June 27, magistrate Alkhaz Tulparov held the first hearing in Arsenyuk’s case, and at night the man died of a massive heart attack.

67-year-old As Naumlyuk told the publication, Vitaly Arsenyuk, before the ban of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, was the head of the local committee of the organization. Together with other believers, he held services, prayed, sang, read and discussed the Bible. In May 2017, he was summoned to the prosecutor’s office several times, and on June 27, the first hearing on Arsenyuk’s administrative case took place; the next hearing was postponed until July.

On April 20, the Supreme Court of Russia declared Jehovah's Witnesses an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia, satisfying the claim of the Ministry of Justice.

recognized on March 15, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to recognize the association as extremist and to liquidate it. The ministry believes that the organization violates “the statutory goals and objectives, as well as current legislation.”