In Chita, Investigators Study the Circumstances Surrounding the Beating by Police of a Christian Teenager During a Raid in February

On 23 May 2020, 17-year-old Aleksandr Karpov was questioned by an investigator about the events of 10 February 2020. That day, during the raid on the believers, police officers dropped him on the floor, forced him to lie on his stomach and put his hands behind his head, hit him on the back, ribs and legs, causing him to bleed.

The events unfolded as follows. On 10 February 2020, at 06:00 am, Aleksandr heard a knock on the door. Not waiting for an answer to the question "who is there", he opened the door, thinking that it was his father who had returned from work. When he saw a group of masked people in the dark, he intuitively tried to close the door. The law enforcers forced him to the floor, put their hands behind his head and beat him - in front of his mother and younger sister. The young man had to "crawl" into the living room, where the law enforcement officers read to the family the court order to search their house. The search lasted 12 hours.

The lawyer in the interests of Aleksandr Karpov filed a complaint with the investigation department about the actions of law enforcers who broke into their house. The medical expert recorded the traces of beatings of the teenager, and a specialist went to the house to inspect the house, who seized the tights with traces of Aleksandr's blood, in which he was on the day of the search.

Due to the misinterpretation of the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of April 20, 2017, law enforcement officers continue to persecute Russian families of peaceful believers, and often children and teenagers suffer from this.