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26 November 2020, 20:11Courts extends detention of 3 managers of Jehovah's Witnesses Administrative Center in Russia, all charged with setting up extremist organization
Moscow, November 26, Interfax - Moscow's Presnensky Court on Thursday declined the investigator's request to arrest all four detained Jehovah's Witnesses (organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).
"The court has declined to grant the investigator's motion requesting that a measure of restraint in the form of custody be selected for Sergei Grigoryevich Shatalov, instead of the ordered house arrest measure of restraint given to him until January 23," court spokesperson Lela Kokaya said.
"The court has extended the detention periods through November 27 for Ivan Stepanovich Chaikovsky, Vitaly Viktorovich Komarov, and Yury Yevgenyevich Chernyshyov," Kokaya said.
All four have been charged with organizing the activity of a civil or religious association, dissolved or banned by court due to the organization pursuing extremist activity.
If found guilty, each defendant faces either a fine of 400,000 rubles to 800,000 rubles or a jail sentence of six to ten years, with a ban on taking certain official positions.
The Moscow department of the Russian Investigative Committee earlier said that several leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses Administrative Center in Russia had been detained. |
