Actions of Law Enforcement Officers

In Nizhny Novgorod, law enforcement officers rudely disrupted a worship service. Planting a forbidden brochure

Nizhegorod Region

On February 10, 2017, in Nizhny Novgorod, a group of 15 law enforcement officers attended a service with the participation of about 100 Jehovah's Witnesses, which took place on Fuchik Street. The police immediately dispersed in the cloakroom, where one of the visitors put a brochure included in the list of extremist materials on a bench.

The believers warned the police about the inadmissibility of disrupting the service, but police captain (in civilian clothes) Igor Gorshkov walked with the whole group from the cloakroom to the Hall, where he demanded to stop reading the Bible, saying that otherwise it would be considered as disobedience and obstruction of the operational-investigative action!

Believers have no doubt that the intrusion of law enforcement officers was accompanied by a planting, because before the start of the service, they prudently inspected the building and clearly recorded in the "Visual Inspection Report" that there were no prohibited materials in it.