Case of Ilinych in Ussuriysk

Vitaliy Ilinykh's house is being searched as part of a criminal case against his mother , Olga Opaleva.

The case of Vitaliy Ilinykh is separated into a separate proceeding.

The Investigative Directorate for the city of Ussuriysk of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Territory initiates a criminal case for faith under Article 282.2 (1); According to the investigation, he carried out "organizational actions to disseminate prohibited literature and information, as well as control over the conduct of sermons by members of a local religious organization" (with reference to the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate the religious organization "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" and its local religious organizations). Innocent victims of law enforcement officers are: Ilyinykh Vitaly (born in 1974).

Vitaliy Ilinykh's apartment is being searched.

Vitaly Ilyinykh's mother, 67-year-old Olga Opaleva, who is persecuted for her faith in the same way as her son, is not feeling well in the FSIN convoy car on the way to court. She is hospitalized with an ischemic stroke. She desperately needs her son's help.

Vitaliy Ilinykh and his wife, Irina, are being searched again. Vitaliy is taken into custody, but after 2 days the court chooses a preventive measure for him in the form of a written undertaking not to leave.

The investigator reclassifies the charge against Vitaly Ilinykh to a milder article — participation in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The case of Vitaliy Ilyinykh is submitted to the Ussuriysk District Court for consideration by Judge Tatyana Pavlenko.

The first hearing in the Ussuriysk District Court of Primorsky Krai. Judge Tatyana Pavlenko determines the order of the court session. The prosecutor reads out the indictment, the defendant Vitaly Ilyinykh does not agree with the charges.

Ilinykh filed three motions: to refuse a lawyer; the openness of the meeting; on the study and attachment to the case file of the resolution of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of October 1, 2020. The court granted the last two motions.

A secret witness, a woman who attended services of Jehovah's Witnesses in order to gather information about believers, is being interrogated. She admits that she has a negative attitude towards Jehovah's Witnesses and is interested in them ceasing their "activities" in Ussuriysk. At the same time, the woman never heard threats from believers against her, as well as calls for violence, genocide or overthrow of state power.

The case is referred to Judge Anna Zakharova. The court completes the listening to the audio recordings of the believers' telephone conversations and proceeds to the study of the video recordings of the services.

The debate scheduled for that day was adjourned.

The prosecutor asks the court to give Vitaliy Ilinykh a suspended sentence of 4 years.

Judge Anna Zakharova finds Vitaliy Ilinykh guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and sentences him to 2.5 years of suspended imprisonment, restriction of liberty for a term of 8 months with a probationary period of 2 years.

The Primorsky Regional Court approves the sentence of Vitaly Ilinykh - 2.5 years of suspended imprisonment.