In Komsomolsk-on-Amur Six More Searches Were Conducted at Homes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Searches Involved Several Familie

On the evening of 25 May, 2023, searches were conducted at six addresses of residents of Komsomolsk-on-Amur who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Presumably, a criminal case was opened for their faith.

The searches started around 8 p.m. and lasted almost until midnight. The believers were communicating with each other via video conferencing at the time.

In Rodion Shitov's apartment investigative actions were headed by Lieutenant of Justice A. Tereshchuk, investigator of the Investigative Committee for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region.  Aleksey Krupnov, an FSB officer, and testifying witnesses also participated in the search. Shitov's personal notes "indicating membership in the Jehovah's Witnesses religion", according to law enforcement officers, electronic devices, media storage, and medical books from Russian publishers on alternatives to blood transfusions were confiscated. The next day he was summoned for interrogation as a suspect to the local branch of the Investigative Committee. The summons was issued by investigator Leonid Kuznetsov.

Thirty Jehovah's Witnesses are already being prosecuted for their peaceful religious beliefs in the Khabarovsk Territory, four of them in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.