The appeal confirmed the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from the Krasnodar region

On September 13, the panel of judges of the Krasnodar Regional Court approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Maxim Beltikov - previously he was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony. Information about this is on the website covering the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses.

appeared In January, the Pavlovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory Beltikov was found guilty of participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). In March, a believer was transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar to colony No. 9 in the city of Khadyzhensk.

admitted that the criminal case against Beltikov was transferred in June 2020. Before the sentencing, he was under recognizance not to leave the place.

initiated In 2017, the Supreme Court the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” as an extremist organization, liquidated it and banned its activities on the territory of Russia. All organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were included in the list of prohibited organizations, after which criminal cases began against believers. recognized that the flow - In June, the European Court of Human Rights banned the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses and the subsequent persecution of believers as illegal. From the point of view of the ECHR, the decision to liquidate the organization and criminal cases against Jehovah’s Witnesses is based on an overly broad definition of “extremism”, which in Russian legislation “can be applied to absolutely peaceful forms of expression.”

admitted