On December 12, six innocent people may be sentenced in Penza. Prosecutor's Office Asks for 3 to 7 Years in Prison for Faith

On December 10, 2019, the defense of six Jehovah's Witnesses demanded that the court fully acquit them for not being involved in any extremist activity. On December 12, the defendants will make their final statement. After that, Judge Roman Tanchenko will announce the verdict.

Earlier, on December 5, the prosecutor requested 7 years of real imprisonment for Vladimir Alushkin, 4 years of imprisonment for Andrey Magliv, Vladimir Kulyasov and Denis Timoshin for 4 years in prison, and 3 years of imprisonment for Tatyana Alushkina and Galiya Olkhova. For everyone except Vladimir Alushkin, the prosecutor proposes to replace the prison with forced labor.

Vladimir Alushkin, whom the prosecutor's office proposes to send to jail for 7 years, appealed his arrest to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. On October 1, 2019, the UN Working Group, having studied the explanations provided by the Russian authorities, promulgated its resolution: the arrest of believer Vladimir Alushkin was illegal! The UN regarded what was happening in Russia as "systemic and institutionalized persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses" (paragraph 65).