Another Jehovah's Witnesses case has been returned to the prosecutor's office in Kamchatka

The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court returned the criminal case of Sergei Ledenev to the prosecutor.

12 December 2019 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court Kamchatka Territory returned the criminal case of a follower of the doctrine to the prosecutor's office Jehovah's Witnesses Sergei Ledenev, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 CC (organization of the activities of an extremist organization). It is likely that the court found the indictment drawn up in violation of Code of Criminal Procedure.

Ledeneva accused of being from September to December 2018 in an apartment in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, he organized, observing secrecy measures, activities of the banned religious association Jehovah's Witnesses. There collective worship and training sessions were held. Ledenev was detained in December 2018, a written undertaking not to leave was taken from him, later replaced by commitment to appear.

Recall November 14, 2019 Elizovsky District Court of the Kamchatka Territory returned the case of Jehovah's Witnesses Konstantin and Snezhana to the prosecutor Bazhenovs (b. 1977) and Vera Zolotova (b. 1946), also accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization. to court was taken Previously, the case Jehovah's Witnesses Mikhail and Elena Popov from Vilyuchinsk.

Witnesses Jehovah is accused of involvement in the activities of an extremist organization in fact that in April 2017 the Supreme Court of Russia decided due to the on the recognition of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and 395 local religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses extremist. We believe that this a decision that entailed mass persecution of believers under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code, not had legal grounds, and we regard it as a manifestation of religious discrimination.

Sources

• Another bold decision of the court: in Kamchatka, the criminal case against the believer Sergei Ledenev is returned to the prosecutor's office. Message from Jehovah's Witnesses. 2019. December 16.