Crimea
Russia Loses Conscientious Workers as Attacks on Faith Go On
According to tabulations April 20, 2020, three years after the liquidation of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ communities, 332 people became victims of criminal prosecution, 166 of these undergoing imprisonment. These are honest, non-drinking workers: teachers, builders, firefighters, accountants, lawyers. Authorities ruin their career, paralyze their life.
Will a father of four children go to a strict-regime colony in Crimea solely for his Christian faith? The Dzhankoy District Court will decide it on March 5
28 February 2020
In Crimea, the prosecutor requested an unprecedented sentence for faith. Sergey Filatov, father of two minor children, faces seven years in a strict regime colony
25 February 2020
In Yalta on February 13, FSB officers ransacked the home of 41-year-old Taras Kuzio. The special operation took place against the background of the trial of another believer, Artem Gerasimov
14 February 2020
On February 10, the prosecutor requested for Artem Gerasimov from Yalta six years and six months in prison and a year of restriction of freedom. His is accused of meeting with fellow believers
11 February 2020
Read case timeline of Sergey Filatov. First prosecution witness cannot say anything in essence; second does not remember when he testified
8 October 2019
In Crimea, the completed investigation against a father of four is being submitted to court. Follow an updated chronicle in Russian
26 August 2019
53-year-old Sevastopol man suspected of extremism because of reading the Bible. Read Viktor Stashevskiy’s bio
9 August 2019
Agents Search the House of a Witness in Sevastopol
10 July 2019
