[{"body":"The acquittal in the case of Kirill Gushchin remains in force. This decision was made by the Fifth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Pyatigorsk on September 26, 2024.\nA month earlier, the prosecutor\u0026#39;s office of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria made an official apology to Gushchin for unjustified criminal prosecution. However, in the cassation proceedings, the prosecution sought a complete review of the case. This is how Gushchin commented on the position of the prosecutor\u0026#39;s office: \u0026quot;The arguments in the cassation submission do not refute the conclusions of the court of first instance, but is simply the public prosecutor\u0026#39;s disagreement with the assessment of the evidence and the established circumstances.\u0026quot;\nTo date, only two acquittals of Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witness in Russia remain in force – Kirill Gushchin\u0026#39;s and Yuriy Zalipayev\u0026#39;s.\n","category":"victory","date":"2024-09-26T00:00:00Z","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2024/10/011026/image_hu_5ec56ac7fddca8f4.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2024/10/011026/image_hu_d4347645c2ec1206.jpg","webp":"/news/2024/10/011026/image_hu_6219ffadf174a342.webp","webp2x":"/news/2024/10/011026/image_hu_d823f23ec8b40cc5.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2024/10/011026.html","regions":["kabardino-balkar"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["acquittal","cassation","prosecutor-apology"],"title":"Court of Cassation Upheld the Aquittal of Kirill Gushchin — Prosecutor's Office Has Already Made an Official Apology to the Believer","type":"news"},{"body":"The Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, represented by the Acting District Prosecutor A.G. Antyshev, makes an official apology to Kirill Gushchin in connection with the unjustified criminal prosecution under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.\n","caseTitle":"The Case of Gushchin in Mayskiy","date":"2024-08-07T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/mayskiy2/index.html#20240807","regions":["kabardino-balkar"],"tags":["prosecutor-apology"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Prosecutor Lukyanov A.V. makes an official apology to Yuriy Zalipaev for the harm caused by the unjust criminal prosecution.\n","caseTitle":"Case of Zalipayev in Mayskiy","date":"2021-02-25T00:00:00Z","permalink":"/en/cases/mayskiy/index.html#20210225","regions":["kabardino-balkar"],"tags":["prosecutor-apology"],"type":"timeline"},{"body":"Sergiev Posad residents Vyacheslav Stepanov and Andrey Sivak, who have been prosecuted for their religion for 7 years, received letters of apology from the Sergiev Posad City Prosecutor's Office with apologies and an explanation of the procedure for rehabilitation.\nIn the letter, the deputy prosecutor of the city A. K. Sergeev said: \"... On behalf of the state, I officially apologize to you for the moral damage caused to you associated with unjustified criminal prosecution under Article 282 Part 2. [...] You have the right to request written communication of the decision that justifies you to your place of work, study or place of residence. In the event that information about ... the illegal actions applied to you have been published in the press, disseminated on radio, television or other mass media, you have the right to demand that the relevant media make a report on rehabilitation.\nThe Federal Financial Monitoring Service has already informed believers that their names have been excluded from the list of \"persons in respect of whom there is information about their involvement in extremist activities.\"\n","category":"rehab","date":"2017-11-07T12:19:29+03:00","duration":null,"image":{"jpg":"/news/2017/11/228/serposad-24064_hu_739cd85cc081c642.jpg","jpg2x":"/news/2017/11/228/serposad-24064.jpg","webp":"/news/2017/11/228/serposad-24064_hu_2d1ca31c056b2973.webp","webp2x":"/news/2017/11/228/serposad-24064_hu_619204edccb8dd53.webp"},"permalink":"/en/news/2017/11/228.html","regions":["moscow_obl"],"subtitle":null,"tags":["prosecutor-apology","282.2-2"],"title":"The Prosecutor's Office Made an Official Apology to the Sergiev Posad Elders","type":"news"},{"body":"Yuriy Zalipayev was born in 1962 in Kuibyshev (now Samara). Seven years later, he and his parents moved to the Magadan region. In 1983, he married his former classmate Natalya and moved with her to the city of Mayskiy (Kabardino-Balkaria). Here Yuriy worked as a driver, a caretaker of a children\u0026#39;s sports school and a welder. He is fond of poetry and airbrushing, loves hiking in the mountains.\nYuriy and Natalya began studying the Bible together with Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses in 1993, and a year later they were baptized as followers of this religion on the same day. The couple raised their three children according to the teachings and commandments of the Bible.\nIn August 2017, a criminal case was opened against this peaceful, deeply religious man under Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — \u0026quot;incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity.\u0026quot; Investigators suggested that Yuriy allegedly publicly called on Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses to \u0026quot;beat Orthodox Christians and Muslims.\u0026quot; This accusation not only did not correspond to reality, but contradicted all common sense, as well as well-known facts: the non-violence for Jehovah\u0026#39;s Witnesses is so categorical that tens of thousands of believers of this religion preferred imprisonment, and sometimes certain death, refusing to serve in the armed forces of different countries.\nOn October 7, 2020, Нуlena Kudryavtseva, judge of the Mayskiy District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, fully acquitted Yuriy Zalipayev. In February 2021, the prosecutor\u0026#39;s office officially apologized to the believer for the erroneously initiated case.\n","date":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","image":{"jpg":"/prisoners/zalipaev/photo.jpg","jpg2x":"/prisoners/zalipaev/photo.jpg","webp":"/prisoners/zalipaev/photo_hu_1ec670aee2c960a5.webp","webp2x":"/prisoners/zalipaev/photo_hu_1ec670aee2c960a5.webp"},"permalink":"/en/prisoners/zalipaev.html","regions":["kabardino-balkar"],"tags":["prosecutor-apology","elderly"],"title":"Yuriy Zalipayev","type":"prisoners"}]