In Taganrog, the Investigative Committee completed the investigation of the case against three Jehovah's Witnesses

In Taganrog, the Investigative Committee completed a criminal investigation into three Jehovah's Witnesses accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Information about this is on the SK website.

appeared According to the investigation, the accused, observing secrecy measures, conducted collective religious services and educational classes, and also engaged in missionary activities. During the investigation, investigators conducted 17 searches and interviewed “a wide range of witnesses.”

Most likely, we are talking about the case involving believers Alexander Skvortsov, Valery Tibiy and Vladimir Moiseenko. At the end of December 2021, Skvortsov was accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, other Taganrog Jehovah's Witnesses were searched.

began The case against Tibiy and Moiseenko on April 20. Then the investigation reported that the suspects took an active part in organizing the work of the local cell of Jehovah's Witnesses and involved residents of Taganrog in extremist activities.

Skvortsov was aroused ; Tibiy and Moiseenko are in pretrial detention.

• The Taganrog community of Jehovah's Witnesses was recognized as extremist back in 2009, before a general ban was issued on the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. notes - In 2017, the Supreme Court “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” was an extremist organization, liquidated it and banned its activities in Russia. All organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were included in the list of prohibited organizations, after which criminal cases began against believers. Rosfinmonitoring lists hundreds of Russian followers of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremists and terrorists. Most of the people on the list are believers between 40 and 60 years old. admitted introduced flow the - June 7, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights banning the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses and the subsequent persecution of believers is 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