[{"body":"The preventive measure for all six defendants — Timoshchenko, Gorev, Bagin, Zhukov, Sharov, and Gorokhov — has been changed by the court from house arrest to a recognizance agreement. The electronic monitoring bracelets were removed from the believers.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Bagin and Others in Mayna","date":"2026-07-10T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/mayna/index.html#20260710","regions":["khakassia"],"tags":["recognizance-agreement","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"It became known that Larisa Serdtseva was fitted with an electronic bracelet to monitor her compliance with the ban on leaving the city for 6 months.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Serdtseva and Others in Shakhunya","date":"2026-06-29T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/shakhunya/index.html#20260629","regions":["nizhegorod"],"tags":["ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Investigator Grankov requests the Dzhankoy District Court place Aleksandr Ursu under house arrest.\nThe lawyer requests a more lenient preventive measure — a ban on certain actions. He explains that Ursu's wife has serious health problems and Aleksandr is responsibile for all household issues.\nThe court agrees with the position of the defense. Aleksandr is forbidden to leave his apartment in the period from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. the next day, to leave Dzhankoy, to use communications and the Internet. The elderly believer is fitted with a tracking bracelet.\nOn the same day, Aleksandr was summoned for interrogation to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The believer spends about 8 hours there.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Aleksandr Ursu in Dzhankoy","date":"2026-04-29T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/dzhankoy3/index.html#20260429","regions":["crimea"],"tags":["prohibition-of-actions","ankle-tag","interrogation","elderly"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic releases Albert Pilshchikov from the pre-trial detention center and places him under house arrest. He is required to wear an electronic tracking bracelet.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Pilshchikov in Cheboksary","date":"2026-03-13T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/cheboksary2/index.html#20260313","regions":["chuvashia"],"tags":["appeal","sizo","house-arrest","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Judge Sergey Mukhortov lifts some of the restrictions from 72-year-old Galina Inkina - to leave the house after 22:00 and attend public events. She is still prohibited from communicating with witnesses and suspects in the case, as well as using communications and the Internet.\nSince wearing a tracking bracelet is not required to comply with the current restrictions, it is expected that the Federal Penitentiary Service will remove it in the near future.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Mladov and Inkina in Dubna","date":"2025-12-17T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/dubna/index.html#20251217","regions":["moscow_obl"],"tags":["ankle-tag","prohibition-of-actions","elderly"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On November 20, 2025, at 7 a.m., law enforcement officers carried out searches at four addresses of Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses in the city of Kansk. Afterward five believers were taken for interrogation. One man and one woman were placed under house arrest with tracking bracelets on their legs, while another woman was ordered not to leave her home at night.\nActive religious prosecution in the Krasnoyarsk Territory began in 2018, shortly after the organizations of Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses in Russia had been liquidated. Since then, at least 125 searches have taken place there. The last one — in September this year. Criminal cases against a total of 33 people from this region have been initiated; 5 are serving sentences in penal colonies.\n","category":"siloviki","date":"2025-11-20T00:00:00Z","duration":null,"image":{"svg":"/img/news/handcuffs.svg"},"permalink":"/en/news/2025/11/261058.html","regions":["krasnoyarsk"],"subtitle":"Two Under House Arrest","tags":["search","interrogation","house-arrest","ankle-tag"],"title":"Again Searches in Homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.","type":"news"},{"body":"Galina Inkina was born in October 1953 in the village of Iliinka, Kurgan Region. She has an older and a younger brother. Her parents are no longer alive. Galina\u0026#39;s childhood was truly eventful and creative: she participated in school amateur performances, traveled during the holidays with performances from village to village, wrote poems and played in the puppet theater.\nAfter school, she entered a cultural college in the city of Perm but left her studies after the second course — she got married and moved to Zaprudnya in the Moscow Region. There, Galina got a job as a laboratory assistant at the electric vacuum appliances plant, where she worked for 20 years. Then she was a social worker, and after retiring, she worked in a psychiatric hospital for a further 13 years. In her free time, she likes to crochet mittens and socks for her friends; she also takes care of homeless animals.\nIn the 1990s, Galina became seriously interested in the Bible. She was particularly moved by God\u0026#39;s promise to recreate wonderful conditions on earth and bring dead loved ones back to life. She was baptized as one of Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses in 1997.\nGalina has an adult son with whom she has a close relationship. \u0026quot;For 23 years we talk on the phone each day at 9 p.m. — my son calls to ask about my health,\u0026quot; she said and added: \u0026quot;Now this is prohibited.\u0026quot;\nIn December 2024, criminal prosecution of the believer began — armed law enforcement officers broke into her home to search it. She recalls: \u0026quot;I was put in the corridor facing the wall and told at gunpoint to stand like that. I was shaking all over from stress — my arms, my legs and everything inside.\u0026quot;\nGalina has several severe chronic illnesses; she has had eight operations. According to the believer, the prosecution has greatly affected her: \u0026quot; My veins swelled up, my legs get blue and swell up in the evening; the tracking bracelet digs into my leg.\u0026quot;\nFor a while, the elderly woman was without means of communication and was deprived of the phone numbers of the doctors treating her. Nevertheless, Galina does not despair and is grateful for the prayers of her friends, the power of which she feels.\n","date":"2025-10-21","image":{"jpg":"/prisoners/inkina/photo_hu_335ed97d2cbf5bb2.jpg","jpg2x":"/prisoners/inkina/photo_hu_cbeefde8abd39d71.jpg","webp":"/prisoners/inkina/photo_hu_2997e6e6207786e0.webp","webp2x":"/prisoners/inkina/photo_hu_e6cc622587e918e1.webp"},"permalink":"/en/prisoners/inkina.html","regions":["moscow_obl"],"tags":["elderly","health-risk","ankle-tag"],"title":"Galina Inkina","type":"prisoners"},{"body":"Investigator A. Egorov requests a measure of restraint for Galina Inkina in the form of house arrest. But since she is a pensioner, suffers from a number of chronic diseases that require constant medical examination, and lives alone in a one-room apartment, the judge of the Taldom District Court, Sergey Mukhortov, imposes a ban on certain actions on the believer.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Mladov and Inkina in Dubna","date":"2024-12-20T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/dubna/index.html#20241220","regions":["moscow_obl"],"tags":["prohibition-of-actions","ankle-tag","elderly"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The term of house arrest of Victor Ursu is coming to an end. The tracking bracelet is removed from it.\nThe prosecutor's office returns the believer's case to the Investigative Committee. According to the investigator, Ursu's case will be conducted by the deputy head of the Investigation Department in Cankoy.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Ursu in Dzhankoy","date":"2024-07-31T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/dzhankoy2/index.html#20240731","regions":["crimea"],"tags":["house-arrest","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"After being discharged from the hospital, an electronic bracelet is put on the believer's leg to monitor her whereabouts from 21:00 to 06:00. Despite the fact that the believer goes to work, her illness, according to the cardiologist, requires further treatment.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Popova in Cherkessk","date":"2023-12-30T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/cherkessk3/index.html#20231230","regions":["karachaevo"],"tags":["house-arrest","ankle-tag","health-risk"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"After about 300 days of imprisonment, the four believers are released under a ban on certain activities until February 14, 2023. To track their movements, electronic bracelets are put on their feet.\nAt the exit from the courthouse, Aram, Denis, Sergey and Nikolay are greeted with applause by a support group of 30 people. Believers do not complain about their state of health.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Polosenko and Others in Samara","date":"2022-12-12T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/samara/index.html#20221212","regions":["samara"],"tags":["prohibition-of-actions","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Investigator Roman Kochanov changes the measure of restraint for Yevgeny Reshetnikov and Sergey Kretov from house arrest to recognizance not to leave. Electronic tracking bracelets are removed from believers.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Reshetnikov and Others in Gryazi","date":"2021-11-15T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/gryazi/index.html#20211115","regions":["lipetsk"],"tags":["recognizance-agreement","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"In Yaroslavl, an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service comes to Andrey Vyushin's apartment and puts a tracking bracelet on the believer's leg, and also installs a stationary monitoring device in the apartment. At the same time, the measure of restraint chosen for Vyushin does not imply a ban on leaving the home or being in certain places.\nThe appointed lawyer finds out that the authorities of the Federal Penitentiary Service decided to use all available control devices, and Vyushin accidentally got into the list of those to whom these devices were installed.\nThe believer intends to appeal against the actions of law enforcement officers.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Filiznov and Others in Yaroslavl","date":"2021-09-14T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/yaroslavl/index.html#20210914","regions":["yaroslavl"],"tags":["ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On December 5, 2019, the judge of the Neftekumskiy District Court, Oleg Kuts, released the believers from custody in the courtroom. All three were assigned a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. They spent almost a year in the pre-trial detention center.\nThe mitigation of the measure of restraint was petitioned by the investigator of the FSB Directorate for the Stavropol Territory, A. Astakhov, who investigates the \"criminal\" religion of young people. According to him, now believers will not be able to interfere with the investigation, since most of the necessary investigative actions have been completed.\nNow Akopov, Sultanov and Samsonov will be able to live at home and even work, but they will have to wear special sensors that record their movements. They are forbidden to use mail, telephone and the Internet, communicate with witnesses in the case and change their place of residence.\nThe criminal case against the three Neftekumians is just one of 116 cases brought against peaceful believers across Russia. As a result of these religious persecutions, 8 people have already received prison sentences, others have been fined heavily. Three believers were acquitted.\n","category":"restriction","date":"2019-12-06T14:11:48+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/12/1455/stavropolcy_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_a587327df3da6689.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/12/1455/stavropolcy_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_c4357cec489a62bd.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/12/1455/stavropolcy_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_48974b276f1539e5.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/12/1455/stavropolcy_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_176ffba78374dd6d.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/12/1455.html","regions":["stavropol"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["sizo","prohibition-of-actions","ankle-tag"],"title":"Aleksandr Akopov, Shamil Sultanov and Konstantin Samsonov were released from pre-trial detention center in Neftekumsk. They were put on electronic bracelets ","type":"news"},{"body":"On November 19, 2019, the Primorye Regional Court found no reason to extend house arrest Alexei TrofimovAnd, Olga PanyutS and Olga Opaleva. The next day, the court also released Dmitriy Malevaniy. The counter-arguments of the investigator that the suspects could escape, the court recognized as unfounded.\nCriminal cases against believers in Primorye were opened back in November 2018 after searches in their homes . In total, they were under house arrest for almost a year. In October 2019, Olga Opaleva suffered a stroke right in the convoy car. However, she still could not leave her home and was forced to wear an electronic bracelet on her paralyzed leg.\nUpdate. It became known that the prosecutor appealed against the decision made in November 2019 to refuse to extend the term of house arrest for Alexei Trofimov, Dmitry Malevaniy and Olga Panyuta. On December 18, 2019, however, the Spassky District Court, chaired by Judge P. V. Bobrovich, decided to replace the measure of restraint for believers in the form of house arrest with a recognizance not to leave and proper behavior.\n","category":"trial","date":"2019-11-22T17:10:54+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/11/1393/sud_v_primorie_osvobodil_montazhnaya_oblast_hu_ad96090a74d29db5.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/11/1393/sud_v_primorie_osvobodil_montazhnaya_oblast.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/11/1393/sud_v_primorie_osvobodil_montazhnaya_oblast_hu_e061f9cfffcece35.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/11/1393/sud_v_primorie_osvobodil_montazhnaya_oblast_hu_ad785fc1a5aa8e65.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/11/1393.html","regions":["primorye"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["appeal","house-arrest","ankle-tag","recognizance-agreement"],"title":"A court in Primorye released four believers from house arrest ","type":"news"},{"body":"On October 10, 2019, in the convoy car of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), on the way to court, 67-year-old Olga Opaleva became ill, she was hospitalized with an ischemic stroke. On October 23, she was escorted from the hospital back to house arrest. The left side of her body is paralyzed, and an electronic bracelet is worn on her right leg. He moves around the room with difficulty.\nOlga Opaleva is one of 4 defendants in the case of Malevaniy and others in Spassk-Dalny (Primorsky Krai). In November 2018, she was kept in a detention center for 2 days, the investigator petitioned for her detention, but the court chose a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest.\nIn September, they began to acquaint her with 14 volumes of criminal case materials, for this she was taken to the investigating authority under the escort of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Additional pressure was exerted on her by the court on September 25, 2019, ruling that she had time to familiarize herself with the volumes of the case only until October 20, 2019 (which limits her right to judicial protection).\nOn the day when Olga Opaleva was taken from the hospital back under house arrest and put a bracelet on her healthy leg, law enforcement officers invaded the house of her son Vitaly Ilyinykh, who takes care of her. After that, Vitaliy was taken into custody, in the near future the court will choose a measure of restraint for him. Vitaliy is accused of the same thing as his mother - of believing in Jehovah God.\nIn total, there are more than 20 Jehovah's Witnesses in the cities of Vladivostok, Luchegorsk, Partizansk, Spassk-Dalny and Ussuriysk, as well as in the village of Razdolnoye, as accused or suspects in the Primorsky Territory. At least 8 criminal cases have been initiated, some of them are being investigated by the FSB, and some by the Investigative Committee. For example, in one of the cases investigated by the Primorsky FSB, there are 6 women aged 61 to 85 years in the dock.\nThe investigation into what Olga Opaleva, her son and other residents of Spassk-Dalniy believe in began with an FSB operation that took place on the evening of August 12, 2018. At least 17 FSB officers invaded a rented room on Krasnoznamennaya Street, where a friendly meeting was taking place. Phones and tablets were seized from those present. Until late at night, citizens were asked questions under the protocol, for example: was the name \"Jehovah\" pronounced at the meeting? Was the Bible read in the New World Translation?\n","category":"crime","date":"2019-10-24T10:32:33+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/10/1286/opaleva_olga_web1-2_hu_9731d3e7c0837d2d.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/10/1286/opaleva_olga_web1-2.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/10/1286/opaleva_olga_web1-2_hu_1ce042bc80903379.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/10/1286/opaleva_olga_web1-2_hu_5e487feb81e3a3e7.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/10/1286.html","regions":["primorye"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["elderly","health-risk","house-arrest","ankle-tag","families"],"title":"In Spassk-Dalny, a believer suffered a stroke in a convoy car. After that, she put an electronic bracelet on her leg, which was not paralyzed","type":"news"},{"body":"Sergey Yavushkin is very worried about the criminal prosecution, and his health condition is deteriorating sharply. He is taken to the hospital by ambulance. The tracking bracelet on Sergey's leg greatly complicates the work of doctors. With great difficulty, it is possible to convince investigator Nikitin to allow the electronic bracelet to be removed in order to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of the patient. Sergey is undergoing treatment in the department for stroke patients.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yavushkin and Bondarchuk in Kemerovo","date":"2019-08-22T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kemerovo/index.html#20190822","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["health-risk","ankle-tag"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On February 26, 2019, the Khanty-Mansiysk District Court (court of first instance) rejected the request of the Investigative Committee of Russia to detain 38-year-old Andrey Sazonov and ordered his immediate release. Earlier, on February 8, the court sent him to 55 days in custody, but later the court of appeal reduced the period of his detention and returned his case for a new trial. The decision on house arrest was made by the new composition of the court.\nIt is noteworthy that Andrey Sazonov will be under house arrest at his home in the city of Urai (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), and not in Khanty-Mansiysk, where the investigative body is located. The distance between the cities is more than 400 kilometers.\nAndrew arrived home the same day at 2 a.m. The next morning, a bracelet was put on his leg.\n","category":"restriction","date":"2019-02-27T19:53:50+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/02/637/190208_sazonov285_0_hu_616cceef17c4e75c.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/02/637/190208_sazonov285_0.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/02/637/190208_sazonov285_0_hu_1142d5f6876380fa.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/02/637/190208_sazonov285_0_hu_3bc78bf85ce49750.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/02/637.html","regions":["khanty-mansi"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["sizo","house-arrest","ankle-tag"],"title":"A believer from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra was released from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest","type":"news"}]