Six Years of Prison for Sergey Klimov. Court in Tomsk Issued Another Guilty Verdict for Believing in Jehovah

5 November 2019

Tomsk Region

Photo: Sergey Klimov

On November 5, 2019, judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Tomsk Dmitriy Borisov pronounced a sentence for a local resident, Sergey Klimov, who was convicted of practicing the “wrong” religion: six years in a penal colony. His defense plans to appeal the unjust verdict.

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Case of Klimov in Tomsk

Region:

Tomsk Region

Locality:

Tomsk

Case number:

11802690013000085

Number of the case in court:

1-417/19

Current stage:

verdict took effect

Suspected of:

according to the investigation, together with others he conducted religious services, which is interpreted as “organising 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)

Investigating:

Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tomsk Region

Case initiated:

3 June 2018

Number of the case in court:

1-417/2019

`Persons in the case`

Sergey Klimov Сергей Климов

`Timeline`

04.08.2017	Задолго до возбуждения уголовного дела судья Томского областного суда Андрей Гончаров разрешает центру «Э» проводить в отношении Сергея Климова оперативно-разыскные мероприятия: прослушивание телефонных переговоров и снятие информации с технических каналов связи.
Август 2017 — май 2018	Оперативники устанавливают, что верующие время от времени встречаются, чтобы молиться и обсуждать библейские темы.
25.10.2017 — 08.05.2018	Проводится слежка и негласная аудиозапись разговоров Климова и его знакомых.

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