Over a dozen cases against Jehovah's Witnesses have been rejected by judges

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ANOTHER COURAGEOUS COURT DECISION: CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST BELIEVER SERGEI LEDENEV RETURNED TO PROSECUTOR IN KAMCHATKA

 

Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, 16 December 2019

 

 

On 12 December Judge Sergei Lubnin of the city court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka returned to the prosecutor a criminal case against Sergei Ledenev. As a rule the court returns a case if serious violations are found in the indictment.

 

Sergei Ledenev is accused of professing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. He learned about the criminal case on 2 December 2018, when a search was conducted in his home. This was not the first criminal case for faith to be opened in Kamchatka. In July 2018, in Viliuchinsk, after a series of searches Mikhail and Elena Popov were arrested and in August of the same year Konstantin and Snezhana Bazhenov and the retiree Vera Zolotov from Elizovo were sent to an IVS [cell for temporary detention].

 

This is not the first case where Russian judges have refused to consider criminal cases against peaceful citizens who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Thus, in Kamchatka, a criminal case of the Bazhenov couple and others in Elizovo was returned to the prosecutor's office. Judges also have refused to consider a case opened against Valentin Osadchuk and six elderly women in Vladivostok, a case of Igor Ivashin in Yakutia, a case of Karimov and others in Tatarstan, and a case of the Raiman couple in Kostroma. Despite the courageous decisions of the judges, believers still find themselves in the status of defendants and they face lengthy prison terms. (tr. by PDS, posted 16 December 2019)

 

Related article:

Another Jehovah's Witnesses case sent back to prosecutor

November 28, 2019

 

https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/191216a.html

 

 

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I am glad that people are recognizing that as a worldwide congregation, we are good for the communities in which we live.

We dont like to "blow our own horn" , but how many of us try to do good things for suffering people that we meet in service?  And when disasters strike, Jehovah's Witnesses are among the first with aid, because we are there already, and surrounding congregations send aid to the local congregations.