THREE
JEHOVAH'S
WITNESSES WILL BE TRIED IN USSURIISK
The
Investigation
Department has completed the investigation of the criminal case
against three
residents of Ussuriisk, who are charged with setting up a
religious
organization that has been ruled on Russian territory to be
extremist, the news
agency UssurMedia reports, citing the investigation department
of the
Investigative Committee of Russia [S.K.R.] for the Primorie
territory.
The
Russian Supreme
Court has ruled the Jehovah's Witnesses to be an extremist
organization.
As was
established
during the course of conducting a preliminary investigation, the
accused were
on the territory of Ussuriisk for the purpose of setting up and
continuing the
activity of the religious organization of the Administrative
Center of
Jehovah's Witnesses of Russia, which has been liquidated on the
territory of
the Russian Federation. The men arranged the activity of the
local religious
organization of Jehovah's Witnesses and carried out the
gathering of members of
this organization by means of telecommunications links.
The
investigation
collected a sufficient evidentiary base so that the criminal
case was sent to a
court for consideration on the merits, with the approval of the
indictment by
the prosecutor. (tr. by PDS, posted 11 August 2020)
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