Sverdlovsk Region
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.
Little Victims of Big Injustice. Children of Jehovah's Witnesses Are Detained, Interrogated, Humiliated
Since 2016, at least 18 cases of harassment of the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been recorded in various regions of Russia. Five such episodes occurred in January 2020. Dozens of minors suffered from religious persecution.
6 April 2020
“Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin were not members of legal entities of Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Read the last word of Darya Dulova at the trial in Karpinsk
7 February 2020
“It worries me that huge sums are spent on fighting those who are not actual extremists”. Read the last word of Venera Dulova at the trial in Karpinsk
5 February 2020
“The charges are unfounded, unproven, and falsified.” Read the last word of Aleksandr Prianikov at the trial in Karpinsk
4 February 2020
In Karpinsk, the Faith of a Man and Two Women Leads to Criminal Convictions
On January 27, 2020, a judge of the Karpinsky City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region, Svetlana Gabbasova, decided in the case of three peaceful civilians under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in extremism). All received suspended sentences lasting from one to two and a half years plus restrictions solely on the basis of their religious views.
27 January 2020
In Karpinsk, hearings began on the case of Prianikov and Dulova, mother and daughter. Court rejected all their petitions. Follow the case chronicle
14 September 2019
Mother and daughter in Karpinsk under criminal prosecution because of religion. Read 19-year-old Darya Dulova’s bio
13 August 2019
A believer from Sverdlovsk Region with hearing disability suspected of “propaganda of extremism.” Read her bio
19 July 2019
Sverdlovsk Region citizen Aleksandr Prianikov persecuted for his faith. His bio is revealing
19 July 2019
