The court in Chita approved real prison terms for three Jehovah's Witnesses and suspended sentences for one

The Trans-Baikal Regional Court approved the verdict of four Jehovah's Witnesses from Chita - Vladimir Ermolaev, Alexander, Igor and Sergei Kirilyuk. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this.

Putintsev Mamalimov was informed on June 6 by the Central District Court of Chita to six and a half years in prison for Ermolaev and. were sentenced to six years in prison, and Sergei Kirilyuk was given a six-year suspended sentence.

sentenced Putintsev to Mamalimov. The believers were found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Prosecutor Ermolaev received seven years in prison, and Kirilyuk received six years of suspended imprisonment. Despite this, a real deadline was set.

requested Putintseva Mamalimova Mamalimova A criminal case against believers was opened in February 2020. Then FSB officers in Transbaikalia conducted massive searches in the homes of followers of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion living in Chita and six other settlements. It was reported that during the searches, law enforcement officers beat a teenager named Alexander, as well as strangled and tortured Jehovah's Witness Vadim Kutsenko.

carried out , subjected to a stun gun - In 2017, the Supreme Court “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” was 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, 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 speech.” recognized by the ECHR