Photo: Orel, Railway Station Square

Photo: Orel, Railway Station Square

Photo: Orel, Railway Station Square

Criminal trial

Announcement: the verdict for the second believer in Oryol will be announced on April 1

Oryol Region

On March 28, 2019, it was announced that the verdict for Jehovah's Witness Sergey Skrynnikov would be announced on April 1 at 10:00 a.m.

Earlier, prosecutor Naumova asked for a real prison term for the believer, accused under the article "participation in the activities of an extremist organization" - three years in a general regime colony plus one year of restriction of movement.

Address of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Orel: st. Maxim Gorky, 45-a.

Case of Skrynnikov in Oryol

Case History
The second Jehovah’s Witness in Oryol to be prosecuted after Dane Dennis Christensen was a school physical education teacher, Sergey Skrynnikov. In February 2018, the investigator of the Investigative Committee for the Oryol Region, A.O. Kompaniets, opened a criminal case against the believer for “participation in the activities of an extremist organization.” Later, an inspection was carried out in his house, during which law enforcement officers did not find anything prohibited. Having neither evidence of guilt nor victims in the case, the prosecutor Naumova requested 3 years in a general regime colony for Sergey. On April 1, 2019, Gleb Noskov, a judge of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Orel, found the believer guilty and sentenced him to pay a fine of 350,000 rubles. The appellate instance did not change this decision. On October 9, 2019, a complaint was filed with the ECHR in the Skrynnikov case.
Timeline

Persons in case

Skrynnikov
Sergey

Criminal case

Region:
Oryol Region
Locality:
Oryol
Suspected of:
according to the investigation he participated in religious services, which is interpreted as participating in the activity of an extremist organisation (with reference to the decision of the Russian Supreme Court on the liquidation of all 396 registered organisations of Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Court case number:
11802540002000011
Initiated:
February 20, 2018
Current case stage:
the verdict entered into force
Investigating:
Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Oryol Region
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation:
282.2 (2)
Court case number:
1 – 121/2018
Examines on the merits:
Zheleznodorozhniy District Court of the City of Oryol
Judge:
Gleb Noskov
Case History
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