In the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers planted banned literature on an elderly believer and "found" it during a search

On the afternoon of October 6, 2020, in the village of Solnechnodolsk, located about 60 kilometers from Stavropol, security forces searched the home of 64-year-old Gennady Serdyukov and planted three books from the Federal List of Extremist Materials on him. Another believer was detained but later released.

The decision to conduct an inspection, and in fact a search, in Serdyukov's house was issued by the judge of the Stavropol Regional Court Anton Akulinin. What exactly the believer is suspected of is not yet known. It is also unclear whether the actions of the security forces are related to one of the three criminal cases initiated in the Stavropol Territory against 14 civilians in Neftekumsk, Nevinnomyssk and Georgievsk. The oldest of the suspects in extremism in the region, Rimma Vashchenko, is 90 years old, the youngest resident of the region persecuted for his faith is 27-year-old Alexander Akopov.

The wave of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Stavropol Territory began 4 years ago from the village of Nezlobnaya. At that time, law enforcement officers planted banned literature on believers, which was recorded by surveillance cameras. In October 2019, this practice continued in the city of Georgievsk. In the homes of three believers, the security forces planted flash drives with prohibited materials.