On June 21, the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan changed the preventive measure of alleged follower of Jehovah's Witnesses Anatoly Vilitkevich to house arrest. This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center.

The court reviewed the decision of the trial court and upheld Vilitkevich's complaint. Before this he was under arrest.

Vilitkevich was detained on April 10. According to investigators, he participated in the activities of the banned Jehovah's Witnesses (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).
On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court recognized the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” as an extremist organization, liquidated it and banned its activities in Russia. In August, all organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were added to the list of prohibited organizations.
According to Jehovah's Witnesses, seven people are currently under arrest in different regions of Russia in connection with the persecution of the organization's communities: Dennis Christensen in Orel, Roman Markin and Viktor Trofimov in the Murmansk region, Valentin Osadchuk in Vladivostok, Alam Aliyev in Birobidzhan and Vladimir Kochnev and Alexander Suvorov in Orenburg.
According to the SOVA IAC, the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses is illegal:

We believe that the liquidation of organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses for extremism, persecution of members of their communities and bans of texts have no legal basis and are a clear manifestation of religious discrimination.

In Bashkortostan, a court placed an alleged member of Jehovah's Witnesses under house arrest