Case History
In June 2024, an investigator of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against three Jehovah’s Witnesses from Izhevsk. A day later, the believers’ apartments were searched. After the interrogations, they were charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization. The investigation considered it a crime to hold peaceful worship services and read the Holy Scriptures via the Internet. The accounts and property of the believers were seized. The ban on certain actions was imposed on Valeriy Knyazev and Indus Talipov. Aleksandr Stefanidin spent almost five months in a pre-trial detention center and then was transfered under house arrest.