Jehovist Savelyev was arrested in Novosibirsk

In Novosibirsk, the leader of the local Jehovah community was detained. This was reported by Interfax-Siberia with reference to the deputy chief of the police of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Olnev.

Later, the Jehovah Witnesses website specified that the person involved in the case is the 64 -year -old Yuri Savelyev. He was detained on November 8 according to the results of searches. The judge of the Central District Court of Novosibirsk Maria Shishkin sent him to the pre -trial detention center until January 7 next year.

The investigation leads the regional head of the TFR. The qualification of the case is not specified. As it can be assumed based on the practice in Russia, Savelyev was imputed part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of activities of an extremist organization), which provides for from 6 to 10 years of the colony.

The community, according to the policeman Olnev, totaled 15 believers. The searches in the case took place both in the detainee and the "active participants". Religious literature, mobile phrases and flash drives were seized.

Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia write about searches in at least 10 dwellings. In one of the apartments where there were guests during the raid, one of the security forces was sent to the assembled assault rifle. "In total, at least 19 people were morally affected by law enforcement officers, including a small girl," the publication says.

As far as is known, the Novosibirsk region is the third of the regions of Western Siberia, in which the case was initiated against Jehovah's Witnesses. In early June, Sergey Klimov was detained in Tomsk; He is sent to a pre -trial detention center.

A month later, spouses Sergey and Anastasia Polyakova were arrested in Omsk. During the detention, Sergei Polyakov was beaten by special forces .