Believers released in Kamchatka after 44 hours of detention

On November 15, 2016, without waiting for a trial, the authorities released from custody Jehovah's Witnesses A. Timakov and S. Kazakov, who had been arrested after a raid by police and prosecutors on a religious building in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on November 13, 2016.

Believers were repairing a window broken by police officers during the invasion (pictured). Timakov and Kazakov were sent to a detention center for allegedly disobeying a police officer's demand.