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A believer was arrested at the Krasnoyarsk airport
Krasnoyarsk TerritoryOn July 3, 2018, at 4:20 a.m., FSB officers arrested 44-year-old Andrey Stupnikov at Krasnoyarsk's Yemelyanovo airport. He is suspected of practicing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses.
At check-in, Andrey and his wife were approached by two men. One of them presented an FSB ID card. Andrey was told that he had been detained and would be taken to the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory at 18 Dzerzhinsky Street. According to state security officers, within 2 days the court must decide on the measure of restraint against Andrei.
Currently, dozens of citizens professing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are in jail and under house arrest. Such a serious violation of the rights of believers is a direct consequence of a miscarriage of justice - the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate and ban all 396 organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia: "The accusations of citizens that they read the Bible together and pray to God are interpreted as "continuation of the activities of an extremist organization." The Council considers that such an interpretation is not consistent with the legal position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. There is a contradiction between the declared position of the Government of the Russian Federation and law enforcement practice. This cannot but cause concern, since criminal prosecutions and arrests have become systemic."