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 court sent Aleksandr Stefanidin to a pre-trial detention center and imposed a ban on certain actions for Valeriy Knyazev and Indus Talipov. The investigator seized the accounts and property of the believers.