Instead of Two Released. Two More of Jehovah's Witnesses Prosecuted in Adygea

Early in the morning of April 29, 2025, in Adygeisk, a small town on the border with the Krasnodar Territory, searches were carried out in the families of two Jehovah's Witnesses: 57-year-old Aleksey Dmitriev and 74-year-old Yuriy Sergeechev. The men were interrogated, detained, and the next day they were sent to a pre-trial detention center (town of Tlyustenkhabl).

The search warrant was issued by the investigator of the Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Adygea, Zalim Ashinov. According to eyewitnesses, the investigative actions were carried out by two FSB brigades from Maykop. The security forces behaved correctly, but did not give the believers the opportunity to observe the search. Mobile devices, a computer, electronic storage media and notepads were seized.

The search became stressful for both families. The wife of Sergeechev and Dmitriev's 90-year-old mother had hypertensive crises. Sergeechev himself has heart problems: he suffered two heart attacks and a few days before his arrest was discharged from the day hospital, where he was sent because of angina pectoris and hypertension.

At the end of April, two believers from Adygea — Inver Siyukhov and Nikolay Voishchev — were released after serving their sentences for their faith.