The court of the Stavropol Territory received the case of an 82-year-old Jehovah's Witness

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory will consider the case of 82-year-old Jehovah's Witness Zinaida Minenko, accused of involvement in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Minenko’s case materials were received by the court on March 31. About this on the website of the Information and Analytical Center "Sova".

reported A believing pensioner was suspected of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) in November 2021. Then to her home, as well as to other local Jehovah's Witnesses, with searches. As believers reported, in some cases security forces planted flash drives with materials included in the extremist list and corresponding books on them.

came In February 2022, the investigation reclassified Minenko’s charges to Part 1.1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code.

Zinaida Minenko has group I visual disability.

• On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court liquidated the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. Later, all organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were added to the list of prohibited ones. After this, criminal cases began against representatives of the confession. recognized introduced the flow - According to Federal No. 114-FZ “On Combating Extremist Activities”, extremism is a violent change of the constitutional system, violation of the territorial integrity of the state, justification of terrorism, propaganda of social inequality depending on various characteristics and discrimination, committing hate crimes, propaganda of Nazism, as well as calls for such activities and their preparation. law