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The Chelyabinsk Regional Court approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witnesses
The Court of First Instance had previously sentenced Andrey Perminov to six years of probation.
On March 3, 2023, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Andrei Perminov. Earlier, on November 21, 2022, the Ashinsky City Court found Perminov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization) and gave him a six-year suspended sentence.
was conducted at his place The persecution of Perminov, a disabled person of group I, began in June 2021 after a search , and at the same time searches were carried out at the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses Andrey and Vadim Fedorov. In November, they took a written undertaking not to leave Perminov; His case went to court on May 6, 2022.
The decision to recognize the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and 395 local organizations as extremist was made by the Supreme Court of Russia in April 2017. We believe that this decision, which entailed the mass persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code, had no legal grounds and became a clear manifestation of religious discrimination. In June 2022, the ECHR issued a ruling on the complaint of Jehovah's Witnesses, in which it recognized that the ban on their materials and organizations and the persecution of believers are contrary to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and demanded that criminal cases be dropped under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code against Jehovah's Witnesses and release imprisoned believers.
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