[{"body":"The prosecutor requests 6 years and 6 months in a general regime colony for Anton Kuzhelkov.\nThe state prosecutor also asks to impose on the defendant the obligation to reimburse the costs associated with conducting a comprehensive forensic examination in the amount of 500 thousand rubles. Earlier, the defendant's car was seized.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Kuzhelkov and Prokhorov in Kirsanov","date":"2025-05-15T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kirsanov/index.html#20250515","regions":["tambov"],"tags":["punishment-request","belongings-arrest","interrogation"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Investigator A. A. Selin enforces the court decision to seize the property of believers. The arrest is imposed until the final procedural decision on the criminal case is made. The believers intend to appeal this decision.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Knyazev and Talipov in Izhevsk","date":"2024-08-29T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/izhevsk3/index.html#20240829","regions":["udmurtia"],"tags":["belongings-arrest","elderly"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Judge of the Industrial District Court of Izhevsk I.A. Semenova satisfies the investigator's petition to seize the accounts and property of Valery Knyazev, Indus Talipov and Aleksandr Stefanidin. The investigator refers to Part 1 of Article 115 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation on the need to seize in order to ensure the execution of the sentence in terms of collecting a fine. Funds received and held in their bank accounts have already been seized from believers. The investigator also asks to arrest the share of the apartment owned by Stefanidin.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Knyazev and Talipov in Izhevsk","date":"2024-08-19T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/izhevsk3/index.html#20240819","regions":["udmurtia"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Lelikov's property (house and land) was seized.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Lelikov in Krasnodar","date":"2022-02-18T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/krasnodar/index.html#20220218","regions":["krasnodar"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Oleg's car is seized in case of recovery of a fine for the execution of the sentence.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Sirotkin in Tambov","date":"2021-10-22T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/tambov/index.html#20211022","regions":["tambov"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On October 1, 2021, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court, chaired by Judge Igor Vashukov, rejected Yevgeny Yakku's appeal and upheld the sentence of the lower court. Earlier, the Solombala District Court ordered the 41-year-old believer to pay a fine of 880,000 rubles, thus recognizing peaceful conversations about the Bible as extremism. The court also decided to impose a fine on both cars of the Yakku family, which were arrested earlier, and decided to destroy the seized Bibles.\nThe believer still insists on his innocence. He has the right to appeal against the verdict in cassation, as well as in international instances.\nThe prosecutor requested for Yevgeniy 7.5 years in prison, 2.5 years of restriction of freedom, and also demanded that both arrested cars and other seized equipment be transferred to the state, and everything else, including the seized Bibles, should be destroyed.\nAfter the Yakku family was searched, Eugene lost his new job, which he was supposed to take that day. He got a job as a janitor, but after a while he was also suddenly fired from there without explanation. In April 2019, the believer was included in the list of \"terrorists and extremists\" of Rosfinmonitoring.\nAgainst the background of stress in connection with the criminal prosecution, Yevgeny's chronic illness worsened. Doctors also noted a sharp deterioration in the health of his wife Irina, who has been suffering from an autoimmune disease for many years.\nDuring the investigation, in April 2020, Yakku's mother suffered a stroke. His father did not leave the house for about 10 years due to illness. He needed constant care, so in November of the same year, the believer decided to move his parents to his place, but on the way, Eugene's father died in the car right in his arms.\nThe wife of Eugene Yakku shared that in difficult times their friends were always there: \"They called, expressed their feelings and love, wrote letters and sent postcards. They came to court hearings as they were restrained, and with each subsequent hearing the number of friends did not decrease.\n\"We have never been abandoned or abandoned,\" echoes the words of his wife Eugene.- Friends readily came to us, encouraged, invited to visit, and also helped us financially in legal and medical matters. They brought a lot of food.\"\nThe security forces raided the house of Yevgeniy Yakku on the morning of February 18, 2019. Two criminal cases were initiated against the believer for organizing, participating and involving other persons in the activities of an extremist organization.\nAfter the search, he spent 1 day in a temporary detention center, and then for 2 years and 5 months, Yakku was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. A special device was put on his leg - an electronic tracking bracelet.\nDuring the trial, violations were revealed. One of the prosecution witnesses reported pressure from the investigator to fabricate testimony, but the investigator denied this.\nAnother prosecution witness, Theodosius Nesterov, a priest of one of the local churches, never met the defendant, but claimed that the magazines published by Jehovah's Witnesses \"clearly contain a motive for inciting intolerance ... Although it's not on all pages and it's encrypted.\"\nReligious scholar Sergey Ivanenko, in turn, drew the court's attention to the fact that the religious activities of Jehovah's Witnesses are not related to extremism and the decision of the Supreme Court of 2017 does not imply that believers do not have the right to continue to practice their religion together with others.\nIn addition to Yevgeniy Yakku, another resident of Arkhangelsk, 78-year-old Kaleria Mamykina , faced persecution for her faith. In November 2019, the investigation closed the criminal case against her for lack of corpus delicti. The believer died of complications after the coronavirus in June 2021, without waiting for the results of her rehabilitation.\nRussian and foreign leaders and organizations unanimously condemn the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. For example, the EU countries express their concern about the current situation around believers with the following words: \"The decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to ban the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia for 'extremism' opens the way for criminal prosecution of members of the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses for the mere practice of their religion. Jehovah's Witnesses, like all other religious groups, must be able to peacefully enjoy freedom of assembly without interference, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as by Russia's international commitments and international human rights standards.\"\n","category":"verdict","date":"2021-10-01T00:00:00Z","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2021/10/011747/image_hu_646b208a2ad7cb0e.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2021/10/011747/image_hu_3439cdd221b19205.jpg","webp":"/news/2021/10/011747/image_hu_ce1b3657ac617267.webp","webp2x":"/news/2021/10/011747/image_hu_29d0648b68713857.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2021/10/011747.html","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["appeal","282.2-1","282.2-1.1","fine","belongings-arrest"],"title":"An appeal in Arkhangelsk upheld the verdict against Yevgeniy Yakku. He was fined heavily for believing in God","type":"news"},{"body":"The Central District Court of the city of Kemerovo seizes Ananin's funds with a total amount of 3300 rubles. This money was seized from the believer during a search of his home.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Ananin in Belovo","date":"2021-09-03T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/belovo/index.html#20210903","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The investigator arrests Andrey Danielyan's property - cash seized during the search (about 145 thousand rubles) - on the basis of a decision of the Central District Court of Barnaul.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Danielyan in Rubtsovsk","date":"2021-06-18T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/rubtsovsk/index.html#20210618","regions":["altaisky"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary, E. Pavlova, orders the arrest of Vladimir Dutkin's car. The resolution notes that this was done \"in order to ensure the execution of the sentence in terms of collecting a fine in a criminal case.\"\n","caseTitle":"The case of Dutkin and Others in Cheboksary","date":"2021-06-01T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/cheboksary/index.html#20210601","regions":["chuvashia"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Investigator S. V. Nemtsev, on the basis of a court order dated 15.10.2020, draws up a protocol for the seizure of property. The vehicle remains in custody with the accused Yen Sen Lee.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Baranov and Li in Vyazemskiy","date":"2020-10-19T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/vyazemskiy/index.html#20201019","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Krasnoyarsk, at the request of investigator N. S. Solodovnikova, seizes Vitaliy Sukhov's car. The suspect is prohibited from fully disposing of the vehicle. This measure was taken so that if the court sentences Vitaliy to a fine, it would be possible to recover a fine at the expense of the cost of the car.\n","caseTitle":"Sukhov's case in Krasnoyarsk","date":"2020-10-16T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/krasnoyarsk6/index.html#20201016","regions":["krasnoyarsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Central District Court of Khabarovsk, Chizhova N.A., is considering a repeated petition of the investigator to seize Yen Sen Lee's car, in connection with the expiration of the previous restriction.\nDespite the instructions of the higher court, the judge, without specifying the duration of the new ban, again seizes the car, prohibiting it from disposing of the vehicle.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Baranov and Li in Vyazemskiy","date":"2020-10-15T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/vyazemskiy/index.html#20201015","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Khabarovsk Regional Court partially satisfies the appeal of Yen Sen Lee, filed by him for the arrest of a personal vehicle. The appellate court clarifies that the accused is prohibited from disposing of the car (selling, etc.) until September 26, 2020.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Baranov and Li in Vyazemskiy","date":"2020-09-24T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/vyazemskiy/index.html#20200924","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Central District Court of Khabarovsk satisfies the petition of the investigator of the investigative department of the FSB Directorate for the Khabarovsk Territory Nemtsev S.V. and seizes the 1998 Nissan car owned by Yen Sen Li. The believer plans to appeal against the judge's illegal ruling.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Baranov and Li in Vyazemskiy","date":"2020-08-26T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/vyazemskiy/index.html#20200826","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge, at the request of the investigator, issues a decision on the arrest of Alexander Ivshin's car. The judicial act states that this is necessary to ensure the execution of a possible sentence.\n","caseTitle":"The case of Ivshin in Kholmskaya","date":"2020-08-05T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kholmskaya/index.html#20200805","regions":["krasnodar"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The court of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra cancels the decision of the lower court of January 16, 2020 on the seizure of the property of Andrey Sazonov.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Sazonov in Uray","date":"2020-03-18T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/uray/index.html#20200318","regions":["khanty-mansi"],"tags":["appeal","belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Urai City Court of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra satisfies the petition of the head of the Investigative Committee for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra Balezin S.N. and seizes the car and land plot of Andrey Sazonov.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Sazonov in Uray","date":"2020-01-16T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/uray/index.html#20200116","regions":["khanty-mansi"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Sovetsky District Court of Lipetsk, Ekaterina Ferapontova, orders the seizure of Alexander Kostrov's property in the amount of more than 760 thousand rubles. The court does not consider it necessary to notify the accused of the hearing and makes a decision in his absence.\nThis court decision is made on the basis of the petition of investigator Yakushev. In his opinion, the seizure of the believer's property will ensure the payment of the fine provided as a punishment under the \"extremist\" article in the event of a guilty verdict.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Netreba and Others in Lipetsk","date":"2019-12-31T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/lipetsk/index.html#20191231","regions":["lipetsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On November 25, 2019, a second criminal case on extremism was initiated against Yevgeniy Yakku in Arkhangelsk. At the same time, he has already been under investigation since February of this year. In April, a court seized two cars belonging to the believer's family. The new criminal case was combined in one proceeding with the previous one.\nR. V. Shagarov, an investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee, who is investigating the criminal case against Yevgeny Yakku, has expanded the scope of the charges: now, in addition to participating in the activities of an extremist organization and involving others in its activities (parts 1.1 and 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the believer is also accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This is a more serious charge, as Yakku now faces six to ten years in prison.\nIn addition to Yevgeniy Yakku, another resident of Arkhangelsk, 78-year-old Kaleria Mamykina, faced persecution for her faith, the criminal case against her was initiated on May 7, 2019, and the next day was merged with the Yakku case. Prior to this, the elderly woman had been under surveillance for more than a year.\nThe ranks of peaceful believers who profess a religion that is \"objectionable\" to law enforcement officers are constantly replenished. To date, at least 116 criminal cases have been opened against 300 Russians, and their number continues to grow steadily.\n","category":"trial","date":"2019-12-17T14:35:04+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/12/1476/ukrf_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_d1a5946b1b07aa6b.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/12/1476/ukrf_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_d33dec874c441bdf.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/12/1476/ukrf_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_1a160899306ca471.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/12/1476/ukrf_montazhnaya_oblast_1_edited_hu_2c3db5adc4c777fe.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/12/1476.html","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["new-case","282.2-1","belongings-arrest"],"title":"In Arkhangelsk, another criminal case was initiated against Yevgeniy Yakku for his faith","type":"news"},{"body":"The Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region, on the complaint of Svetlana Monis, amends the decision of the district court and excludes from it the ban on the operation of the arrested car.\nSvetlana Monisa is recharged under Article 282.2 (2) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Monis in Birobidzhan","date":"2019-11-28T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/birobidzhan4/index.html#20191128","regions":["jewish"],"tags":["belongings-arrest","282.2-2"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On October 10, 2019, the Kirov Regional Court canceled the arrest of Anatoly Tokarev's apartment, imposed earlier by the court of first instance. The court ruled that it is against the law to seize the property of believers in case the court imposes a fine on them under an \"extremist\" article.\nThe decision to arrest the apartment and garden belonging to the family of Anatoly Tokarev was made on July 1, 2019 by Sergey Skorobogaty, a judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov. At the same time, housing with a plot of land is in the possession of Lydia Kachurina, the mother of 60-year-old Tokarev. Later, after an appeal filed by the believers, the authorities changed their minds about arresting the garden, but the apartment in which Anatoly's mother lives remained under arrest. Then an appeal was filed with the Kirov Regional Court.\nThe Kirov Regional Court, considering the appeal of Anatoly Tokarev, made the following conclusion: the seizure of property in order to ensure the payment of a fine as a punishment under Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code in the future is not provided for by law. The court pointed out that a fine is only one of the possible main penalties under this article. Since a fine is one of the main types of punishment, in case of non-compliance, it can be (in accordance with Part 5 of Article 46 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) replaced by another type of punishment other than imprisonment. The possibility of such a substitution in itself guarantees its payment and the interests of criminal proceedings. As a result, the court decided to lift the arrest from the apartment of Anatoly Tokarev.\nThe threat of seizure of real estate is nothing more than pressure on believers who refuse to make a deal with the investigation. Back in May 2019, law enforcement officers threatened Anatoliy with problems for his relatives.\nAnatoly Tokarev and his family are not the only Kirov residents who have faced problems because of their religion. After a series of searches in Kirov, criminal cases were opened against at least 11 Jehovah's Witnesses. Polish citizen Andrzej Oniszczuk spent 330 days in jail. ","category":"administrative","date":"2019-11-12T16:53:00+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/11/1353/obl.sud_kirov_montazhnaya_oblast_1_hu_a70f0c50332c65b5.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/11/1353/obl.sud_kirov_montazhnaya_oblast_1_hu_9caa004525d5fc8e.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/11/1353/obl.sud_kirov_montazhnaya_oblast_1_hu_7c5f493c277bd63c.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/11/1353/obl.sud_kirov_montazhnaya_oblast_1_hu_1410002de520a7d9.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/11/1353.html","regions":["kirov"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["appeal","belongings-arrest","fine","fabrications","complaints"],"title":"Court of Appeal: It is illegal to seize property to ensure payment of a fine for faith","type":"news"},{"body":"The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk, Sergey Yarmolyuk, seizes two cars of Sergey Potylitsyn. This means that the believer cannot make transactions, such as selling their cars. The judge explains that the purpose of the arrest is to ensure a possible future fine.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Teterin and Others in Severodvinsk","date":"2019-10-31T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/severodvinsk/index.html#20191031","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk, Yuri Popov, arrests Sergey Potylitsyn's funds to ensure a possible future fine in a criminal case. Bank cards and accounts, to which salaries and pensions were received, were also arrested from Vladimir Teterin and Andrey Maksimovich.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Teterin and Others in Severodvinsk","date":"2019-10-19T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/severodvinsk/index.html#20191019","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The court again decides to arrest the property of Alexander Bondarchuk, although the previous similar decision was overturned by the appellate court. The believer prepares an appeal.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yavushkin and Bondarchuk in Kemerovo","date":"2019-10-16T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kemerovo/index.html#20191016","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"All defendants are issued orders for the seizure of property. The Mysin family had money worth about half a million rubles and a car arrested, Tabakov had 600 thousand rubles in his bank account, and Ganin, Zelensky and Khachikyan had cars arrested.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Zelenskiy and Others in Ulyanovsk","date":"2019-10-11T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/ulyanovsk/index.html#20191011","regions":["ulyanovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Birobidzhan District Court satisfies the petition of the senior investigator-criminalist of the Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia for the Jewish Autonomous Region D. Yankin and seizes Monis' property. The court prohibits Svetlana from operating the car, despite the fact that she needs it for personal purposes and for work.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Monis in Birobidzhan","date":"2019-10-09T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/birobidzhan4/index.html#20191009","regions":["jewish"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge again decides to seize Sergey's property, despite the fact that the appellate instance had previously overturned a similar decision. The believer intends to appeal this decision as well.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yavushkin and Bondarchuk in Kemerovo","date":"2019-10-04T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kemerovo/index.html#20191004","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The court seizes the property of believers. They will appeal the decision.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yavushkin and Bondarchuk in Kemerovo","date":"2019-08-05T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kemerovo/index.html#20190805","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Natalia Naumova, a judge of the Kemerovo Central District Court, seizes Sergey Yavushkin's car \"in order to ensure the execution of the court verdict in terms of property penalties in the form of a fine as a criminal punishment.\"\nA similar decision is made by the court in relation to Aleksandr Bondarchuk.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yavushkin and Bondarchuk in Kemerovo","date":"2019-07-29T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/kemerovo/index.html#20190729","regions":["kemerovo"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On July 1, 2019, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov seized Lydia Kachurina's apartment and garden, in case her 60-year-old son, Anatoliy Tokarev, was found guilty of extremism for being a Jehovah's Witness. An apartment and a plot will be needed to recover a large fine from him.\nThe investigation suspects Anatoly Tokarev of \"organizing ... including in his apartment... meetings\" of fellow believers, together with them he sang biblical songs and studied religious literature, \"the so-called \"Holy Scripture\" (Bible).\"\nIn May 2019, Anatoly's house was searched. When Anatoliy refused to cooperate with the investigation, the security services threatened problems for his family members.\nOn July 19, 2019, Anatoliy Tokarev was informed of the decision of Sergey Skorobogaty, a judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov, who arrested his housing and land plot owned by Tokarev's elderly mother. On July 24, 2019, Anatoliy Tokarev appealed against the decision to seize property.\nTokarev and his mother are not the only Kirov residents who have faced problems because of their religion. After a series of searches in Kirov, criminal cases were opened against at least 11 Jehovah's Witnesses. Polish citizen Andrzej Oniszczuk has been held in pre-trial detention for more than 290 days. ","category":"property","date":"2019-07-29T00:00:00+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/07/999/gavel3_1_hu_5c558753bfa22046.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/07/999/gavel3_1.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/07/999/gavel3_1_hu_aa5e8194921d9bd7.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/07/999/gavel3_1_hu_5e365c883efcfa9.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/07/999.html","regions":["kirov"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["belongings-arrest","elderly"],"title":"Law enforcement officers in Kirov plan to take away the only housing of an elderly woman as punishment for her faith","type":"news"},{"body":"On April 16, 2019, the judge of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok, Sergey Olkhovsky, arrested the car and money of Valentin Osadchuk, accused of participating \"in an extremist community\" for his religious beliefs. On the same day, it became known about the completion of the preliminary investigation and the transition of the case to the stage of familiarization of the accused with the case materials.\nThe court argued the decision on the seizure of property by the fact that Osadchuk is accused of acts for which the court can impose a fine of 400 thousand to 800 thousand rubles and confiscate property. According to the law, confiscation of property is possible only if it is obtained \"as a result of committing crimes\" provided for by the \"extremist\" article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. How Osadchuk could get a car and money during the service, neither the investigator nor the court explained. (According to FSB investigator O. Tunyk, Valentin Osadchuk's extremism consisted in the fact that he participated in worship services of believers - he read the Bible, prayed, sang religious songs and talked with fellow believers on biblical topics.) Before his arrest, Osadchuk earned his living as an individual entrepreneur and worked as a sales manager.\nNevertheless, in order to ensure the execution of a possible sentence, the judge arrested a Nissan Presage car (born in 2001) and 26 thousand rubles seized during a search of the believer's house. It was decided to \"transfer the money for storage\" to the FEO of the FSB of Russia in the Primorsky Territory.\nValentin Osadchuk is under house arrest, the court replaced this measure of restraint with his detention in a pre-trial detention center, where he spent 275 days.\n","category":"property","date":"2019-04-16T19:26:53+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/04/793/190919_osadchuk_valentin2891_hu_d44357f49fcf8187.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/04/793/190919_osadchuk_valentin2891.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/04/793/190919_osadchuk_valentin2891_hu_c51400ce29579c24.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/04/793/190919_osadchuk_valentin2891_hu_77f216803e5e302f.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/04/793.html","regions":["primorye"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"title":"A court seized a believer's car and money in Vladivostok","type":"news"},{"body":"The court seizes the property of Valentin Osadchuk.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Osadchuk and Others in Vladivostok","date":"2019-04-16T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/vladivostok3/index.html#20190416","regions":["primorye"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Khabarovsk Regional Court, Alexander Ermolaev, issues a decree on the seizure of postal items and electronic messages addressed to Moskalenko and the production of their inspection.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Moskalenko in Khabarovsk","date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/khabarovsk5/index.html#20190404","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On February 28, 2019, a judge of the Lomonosov District Court of Arkhangelsk arrested two cars of the Yakku family, registered to the head of the family, Yevgeny. He is accused of allegedly continuing the activities of the Local Religious Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses \"Central, Arkhangelsk\". At the same time, Eugene Yakku has never been a member of this organization; Moreover, this organization was disbanded on the initiative of believers and has never been recognized as \"extremist\" by any court.\nOnly the judge and the prosecutor participated in the court session at which the decision to seize property was made. Neither Yevgeny Yakku nor his lawyer, as follows from the case materials, were invited to the meeting.\nThe arrest of the Opel Astra and Chevrolet Spark cars was requested by the investigator who is in charge of the Yakku case. According to the investigator, the cars had to be arrested in order to ensure the execution of a possible sentence, implying a fine in the amount of a 3-year salary or up to 700 thousand rubles.\nThe prosecutor supported the investigator's opinion, and the judge granted the petition, referring to Article 115 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Russia. This article of the Code of Criminal Procedure states that when deciding on the seizure of property, the court must indicate the specific, factual circumstances on the basis of which it made such a decision. The court simply repeated what was said in the investigator's petition, from which it is clear that Eugene Yakku is accused only of professing and spreading his faith.\nEugen Yakku considered the court's decision unjust and appealed it to a higher court.\n","category":"property","date":"2019-04-02T12:47:50+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2019/04/709/yakku401_0_hu_e3e67a33fe4f9260.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2019/04/709/yakku401_0.jpg","webp":"/news/2019/04/709/yakku401_0_hu_80f05260795d2728.webp","webp2x":"/news/2019/04/709/yakku401_0_hu_a7b6a77c24a0ba8e.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2019/04/709.html","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"title":"In Arkhangelsk, the court arrested the cars of a family of believers","type":"news"},{"body":"Seizure of funds of Zagulin D.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Aliyev and Others in Birobidzhan","date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/birobidzhan10/index.html#20190401","regions":["jewish"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The Lomonosov District Court of Arkhangelsk arrests the cars of the Yakku family in order to ensure the execution of a possible sentence, implying a fine in the amount of a 3-year salary or up to 700 thousand rubles. Only the judge and the prosecutor participate in the hearing. Neither Yevgeniy Yakku nor his lawyer is invited to the hearing.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Yakku in Arkhangelsk","date":"2019-02-28T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/arkhangelsk2/index.html#20190228","regions":["arkhangelsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"The judge of the Kirovsky District Court of Khabarovsk, Sergey Babiy, issues a decree on the seizure and inspection of postal and electronic items in the name of Moskalenko.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Moskalenko in Khabarovsk","date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/khabarovsk5/index.html#20190128","regions":["khabarovsk"],"tags":["belongings-arrest"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"On May 3, 2018, the St. Petersburg City Court ruled: \"The decision of the Sestroretsky District Court of December 7, 2017 to leave unchanged, the appeal is dismissed.\" With this decision, the city court of St. Petersburg legalized the seizure of foreign property located in the village of Solnechnoye near St. Petersburg. The seizure of such a large and expensive property was a direct consequence of the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia to liquidate and ban the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.\n\"We did not observe any adversarial proceedings in the process at all,\" Yaroslav Sivulsky of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses shared his impressions of the trial, \"The judges did not ask any questions, did not specify any circumstances in the case. They simply listened to the arguments of the defense, there was no debate of the parties. They retired to a five-minute meeting and returned with a ready-made solution. That is, in five minutes, the property worth two billion rubles was transferred to the state. It was noticeable that the judge knows the decision in advance and conducts the process along this path.\nArtur Leontiev, a lawyer who represented the Pennsylvania Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in court, had a similar feeling: \"A number of signs allow us to make such an assumption, because back in 2016, somehow there was an entry in Rosreestr that this complex is planned to be withdrawn for state or municipal needs. Interestingly, even before the start of this process, information appeared in the media that one of the state institutions had already submitted an application for this complex to be transferred to them. that the decision had already been made in advance.\"\nArtur Leontiev adds: \"This decision in itself, it has nothing to do, strictly speaking, to the law, because, in general, the institution of protecting private property rights, it is completely trampled. As a matter of fact, no one today can feel protected, even if he diligently complies with the law, all the requirements of the authorities. And it turns out that if the attitude towards it changes for some reason on the part of the authorities, then you can always come up with something, in some interesting way interpret the norms of the law and also the facts, and come to the conclusion that is needed at a given time.\nRichard Devine, vice president of the Watch Tower Society, who testified in court, says: \"I think any unbiased person would agree that the real estate in Solnechnoye belongs to us legally and that this property was, in fact, stolen by the Russian authorities. The decision was predictable, so we are not discouraged. We are pleased that we were able to prepare a solid basis for applying to the European Court of Human Rights.\"\nBelievers have mixed feelings. Here is how Yaroslav Sivulsky expressed them: \"We look positively even at what has happened now, in the context of the fact that by doing so we understand that we are on the right path, since Jesus said that I was persecuted, and you will be persecuted, I was hated, and you will be hated. There was no reason to hate Jesus, no reason to hate and persecute Jehovah's Witnesses. And we are confident that in due time God will restore justice to all his faithful servants.\"\n","category":"overview","date":"2018-05-15T23:52:40+03:00","duration":"3:31","image":{"jpg":"/news/2018/05/315/appeal_property_hu_95141af4b49beaed.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2018/05/315/appeal_property.jpg","webp":"/news/2018/05/315/appeal_property_hu_2a7e28cf0ae8b8ff.webp","webp2x":"/news/2018/05/315/appeal_property_hu_1c4ce7bc4c1ba564.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2018/05/315.html","regions":["stpetersburg"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["appeal","buildings-seizure","belongings-arrest","expert-comments"],"title":"Results of the real estate court in Solnechnoye","type":"video"},{"body":"A real estate complex worth about 2 billion rubles will be seized from a foreign organization, the Pennsylvania Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. On May 3, 2018, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the lower court. The decision takes effect immediately.\n\"The inviolability of private property is considered the basis for confidence in the future,\" says Yaroslav Sivulsky of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses.\nWhat steps preceded this seizure of property? 1) Without any convincing argumentation , the courts recognized a number of publications of Jehovah's Witnesses as \"extremist\". 2) In 2017, after an epidemic of planting \"extremist\" materials in worship buildings, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized all 396 organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses registered in Russia as extremist and liquidated them. (3) The lower court, on the basis of this decision, decided to transfer this property to the ownership of the state, since until 2000 it belonged to one of the liquidated organizations. To that end, the court declared the 17-year-old deal to transfer it to the Watch Tower Society null and void.\nIt is noteworthy that on April 20, 2016, more than a year before the claim of the Ministry of Justice on the liquidation of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, an intriguing entry appeared in the \"Unified State Register of Real Estate Rights\" (EGRP) relating to this liturgical complex: \"A decision has been made to seize the property for state or municipal needs.\" Rosreestr explained this record to believers as a \"technical error.\"\nSuch a large-scale seizure of property in Russia, which was used for religious purposes, is comparable only with the decree of the Council of People's Commissars \"On the separation of Church and State\" of 1918, by which religious organizations were deprived of property. However, unlike the events of 100 years ago, the buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses were purchased and built without state support, solely on voluntary donations and by the believers themselves.\nAll options for further appealing this decision, both nationally and internationally, will be considered by the Watch Tower Society after reviewing the full text of the appellate ruling. In addition, the European Court of Human Rights is considering as a matter of priority the complaint \"Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and Kalin v. Russian Federation\", filed in connection with the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which, in turn, served as the basis for today's decision.\n","category":"property","date":"2018-05-03T14:25:29+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2018/05/309/img_32224675_hu_8731343b135c3276.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2018/05/309/img_32224675.jpg","webp":"/news/2018/05/309/img_32224675_hu_fbbfeeef0b75eb6.webp","webp2x":"/news/2018/05/309/img_32224675_hu_b884fb70fbc4d466.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2018/05/309.html","regions":["stpetersburg"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["appeal","buildings-seizure","belongings-arrest","ussr"],"title":"The Court of Appeal legalized the seizure of property in the village of Solnechnoye, St. Petersburg","type":"news"},{"body":"A 2-minute video review of property in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, which the prosecutor's office, in violation of the basic principles of the inviolability of private property, is trying to take away from a large foreign association.\nSt. Petersburg, the village of Solnechnoye. The Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia was located here. 10 hectares of landscaped area, 14 buildings with a total area of 33,000 square meters. The complex was built in 1997 by volunteers. Since 2000, ownership has been held by the Watch Tower, Bibles, and Tracts Society of Pennsylvania. During this time, the \"Society\" paid about 190,000,000 rubles in taxes to the budget of the Russian Federation. The Russian authorities intend to seize this property from a foreign organization. The appeal hearing in the St. Petersburg City Court is scheduled for May 3, 2018.\n","category":"overview","date":"2018-04-30T12:13:33+03:00","duration":"2:02","image":{"jpg":"/news/2018/04/306/digest_solnechnoye_hu_2fc21baccd70f2c7.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2018/04/306/digest_solnechnoye.jpg","webp":"/news/2018/04/306/digest_solnechnoye_hu_62f9de766b9a7468.webp","webp2x":"/news/2018/04/306/digest_solnechnoye_hu_659ba196f83e3494.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2018/04/306.html","regions":["stpetersburg"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["review","video","belongings-arrest"],"title":"Summary: What do they want to take away from Jehovah's Witnesses in Solnechnoye?","type":"video"},{"body":"On December 7, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., the Sestroretsky District Court of St. Petersburg will begin consideration of a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office aimed at seizing a large real estate complex in St. Petersburg from a foreign organization, the Pennsylvania Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.\nWe are talking about 14 buildings with an area of 33 thousand square meters, located on 10 hectares of landscaped territory in the village of Solnechnoye, Kurortny district of St. Petersburg. The complex has been openly owned since 2000 by the Watch Tower Society, an association that has been active since 1884 and serves the interests of Jehovah's Witnesses throughout the world.\nThe Russian Federation did not finance the construction of the complex. The abandoned pioneer camp was purchased commercially by Jehovah's Witnesses from a Russian company. The ownership of this complex, owned by the Watch Tower Society, was officially registered by the authorized bodies of the Russian Federation and was not disputed by anyone for 17 years. Over the years, the Watch Tower Society, as the owner of real estate, has transferred tens of millions of rubles in taxes to the Russian budget.\nContrary to official statements about the inviolability of private property in the Russian Federation, the prosecutor's office by its actions damages the country's business reputation. No one can feel protected in a state in which the property rights of even foreign associations of international scale are openly violated.\nThe hearing, chaired by Judge N.L. Bogdanova, will be held on December 7 at 14:00 in the Sestroretsk District Court at the address: Sestroretsk, Volodarsky Street, 41.\n","category":"property","date":"2017-12-04T12:21:23+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2017/12/268/_mg_102425992_hu_7914d1e424a1fcfa.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2017/12/268/_mg_102425992.jpg","webp":"/news/2017/12/268/_mg_102425992_hu_1d7775344fcebdea.webp","webp2x":"/news/2017/12/268/_mg_102425992_hu_e25c39e0059d09a6.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2017/12/268.html","regions":["stpetersburg"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["administrative-center","belongings-arrest"],"title":"Attempted seizure of foreign property by Russian authorities","type":"news"}]