One of the believers was arrested in Sochi for 10 days

On September 6, 2017, in the Khostinsky district of Sochi, police detained two Jehovah's Witnesses, 16-year-old A.U. and 32-year-old Sergey Isaev, while walking. After many hours of interrogation by FSB officers, Sergey Isaev was arrested for 10 days on false charges of disobeying the police.

A passer-by recognized the men as Jehovah's Witnesses and, noticing the police and the Cossack patrol, informed them that Jehovah's Witnesses were walking along the alley, "who are forbidden." Police officers and Cossacks escorted the believers to the police station, where they, including the minor, were interrogated until late at night. After midnight, Sergei Isaev was taken to the Sochi department of the FSB. Later it became known that Sergei was accused of disobeying the police. Allegedly, he "refused to get into the car", although there was no car at all!

It is noteworthy that a few hours before the detention in the Khostinsky district of Sochi, police went around the houses of local Jehovah's Witnesses, trying to find out whether their co-religionists were coming to visit them, and whether there were foreigners among them.