In the Bryansk Region, Law Enforcement Officers Conducted Another Search at the Home of a Family of Believers. Criminal Case Initiated Against Woman

On June 27, 2023, a search was conducted at the home of Yuliya Globa, 41, in the village of Vorobevka. This is already the third time her home has been invaded by law enforcement officers in the last four years. A month earlier, a criminal case was initiated against her under an article for participating in the activity of an extremist organization.

The case was initiated by V. I. Golovina, a senior investigator of the Unecha Interdistrict Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Bryansk Region. According to the ruling, the criminal prosecution was based solely on her practicing her religion as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

This is already the sixth instance in the Bryansk Region of law enforcement officers taking action against Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the decision of the Supreme Court Plenum could not stop the practice of repressive application of the law on extremism toward the believers.