A court on Sakhalin approved suspended sentences for five Jehovah's Witnesses

On May 11, the Sakhalin Regional Court left unchanged the suspended sentences of five Jehovah's Witnesses Evgeniy Elin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Alexander Kozlitin and spouses Sergei and Tatyana Kulakov. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this.

reports At the end of January, the court sentenced Sergei Kulakov and Evgeniy Elin to six and a half years probation under the article on organizing the activities of a prohibited organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Tatyana Kulakova, Sergei’s wife, as well as Vyacheslav Ivanov and Alexander Kozlitin were found guilty of participating in the activities of a banned organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), and they were given two years’ probation.

sentenced The case against Sergei Kulakov was initiated in December 2018, and over the next year and a half, the remaining defendants became involved.

Tatyana Kulakova has a visual impairment, and her husband Sergei gets around with the help of a cane. The man was included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring, his accounts were blocked. Vyacheslav Ivanov, 51, and Alexander Kozlitin, 46, also faced blocking of their bank accounts.

• 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. In August, all organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were added to the list of prohibited organizations. After this, criminal cases began against representatives of the confession. In February 2019, the court handed down the first sentence with real imprisonment - Danish citizen Dennis Christensen to six years in prison; his complaint was accepted for consideration by the ECHR. admitted entered the flow sentenced