The case of Lyudmila Zinina in Vyselki

Case History

n May 2023, Lyudmila Zinina became a defendant in a criminal case on extremism just because she read the Bible with friends. She and her daughter were searched back in February 2022. The investigator of the Investigative Committee took a written undertaking not to leave from the elderly woman. At the end of 2023, the case went to court.

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    February 13, 2022 Search

    Lyudmila and Irina Zinin are being searched as part of a mass raid on the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kuban. Electronic devices and data carriers are seized.

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    February 15, 2022 Search
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    February 3, 2023 Case initiated

    The materials of the case against Lyudmila Zinina are separated into separate proceedings.

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    June 12, 2023 Rosfinmonitoring

    Lyudmila Zinina is included in the list of extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.

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    June 15, 2023 Case initiated

    R. S. Latysh, an investigator of the Korenovsky Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory, initiates a criminal case against Lyudmila Zinina under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, the believer is guilty of extremism for "reading aloud the religious books" of Jehovah's Witnesses and "engaging in conversations and religious discussions."

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    July 11, 2023 Recognizance agreement

    Senior investigator R. S. Latysh takes a written undertaking not to leave Lyudmila Zinina.

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    July 22, 2023 Art. 282.2 (2) Case initiated

    The investigator charges Lyudmila Zinina and interrogates her in her new status. A believer enjoys the right not to testify against herself and her loved ones.

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    December 28, 2023 Case went to court

    The case is submitted to the Vyselkovsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory. It will be considered by judge Lidia Koba.

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    February 9, 2024 Hearing in a court of the first instance

    The court does not satisfy the defense's request to merge the criminal cases of believers in Vyselki.

    The prosecutor reads out the charges. Lyudmila expresses her attitude.

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    April 8, 2024 Hearing in a court of the first instance Elderly

    The state prosecutor reads out several pages from the volumes of the case, since for technical reasons it is not possible to listen to and view audio and video materials of the case.