The administration of the pre-trial detention center does not provide the necessary treatment to Jehovah's Witnesses from Maykop

Jehovah's Witness Nikolai Voishchev does not receive the necessary treatment in a pre-trial detention center. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers.

The criminal case against Voishchev became known in October 2022. Then searches were carried out in at least three houses of believers from Maykop, and Voishchev himself was sent to a pre-trial detention center. Later, information appeared that the man was being persecuted under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Jehovah's Witnesses portal writes that in February the man was examined at a regional hospital due to serious illnesses. He was prescribed treatment, access to which is currently not provided to the man by the administration of the pre-trial detention center.

Also, according to the information available to believers, no letters were issued to Voishchev from the moment he was taken into custody until March.

• In 2017, the Supreme Court recognized the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” as an extremist organization, liquidated it and banned its activities in Russia. All organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were included in the list of prohibited ones, after which a stream of criminal cases against believers began. Rosfinmonitoring has added hundreds of Russian followers of Jehovah's Witnesses to the list of extremists and terrorists. Most of the people on the list are believers between 40 and 60 years old.
• On June 7, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights declared the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses organizations and the subsequent persecution of believers 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.”