In Kamchatka, the prosecutor demanded that Jehovah's Witness be sentenced to 6 years in prison

During the debate in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court, the prosecutor demanded that Jehovah's Witness Sergei Ledenev be sentenced to six years in prison in a general regime colony. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this.

The state prosecutor also requested one year of restriction of freedom for the believer.

Ledenev is being prosecuted under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Ledenev is charged with holding “collective religious performances and services”, “distributing literature with extremist content”, “planned training in the tenets of the religious association “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, “viewing video materials of a prohibited religious structure”. On December 2, 2018, his place was searched.

• In December 2019, the court refused to consider the case against Jehovah's Witness Sergei Ledenev and returned the materials to the prosecutor's office.
• 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 Jehovah's Witnesses organizations were added to the list of prohibited organizations. After this, a stream of criminal cases against representatives of the confession began. In February 2019, the court handed down its first sentence with real imprisonment - Danish citizen Dennis Christensen was sentenced to six years in prison.
• ​OVD-Info talked about the life of followers of Jehovah's Witnesses under the ban and how they are persecuted.