Name: Ombysh Filipp Valeriyevich
Date of Birth: July 5, 1985
Current status: accused
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Time spent in prison: 2 day in a temporary detention facility, 19 day in a pre-trial detention, 128 day Under house arrest
Current restrictions: house arrest

Biography

"Why is a resurrection necessary, if after death a person is already living in paradise?" — this question haunted Filipp Ombysh for a long time. The answer he found in the Bible changed his life.

Filipp Ombysh was born in Saratov in 1985. When he was 7, his father died, and his mother raised Filipp alone. She is now retired.

After school, Filipp received the profession of a pastry chef. From 2009 to 2011, he did alternative civilian service in the Chelyabinsk Regional Hospital as an auxiliary worker and as an assistant in the pharmacy. Then he qualified as a pastry chef. For a time, he worked as a security guard.

In 2008, Filipp became one of Jehovah's Witnesses. He liked the logic and consistency of the Bible's teachings. Another important event in his life took place 15 years later — he married Olga, who shares his views on life. They met at a friendly football match. Both love sports: Filipp — arm wrestling, and Olga — volleyball. She is a hairdresser.

When Filipp was arrested, his wife's parents were summoned for interrogation. Later, pressure was put on Olga's younger sister, who was in the 11th grade. It was so severe and exhausting that the girl's parents were forced to take her out of school.

Case History

In February 2025, the FSB Directorate for the Saratov Region initiated a criminal case for participating in the activity of an organization declared extremist. This is how the investigation interprets the holding of peaceful meetings for worship of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In September of the same year, searches were carried out at the homes of several believers in Saratov and the village of Anastasino. During the search, a stun gun was repeatedly and unreasonably used against Proshenkov, his wife asked numerous authorities to urgently investigate the incident. The court placed Mikhail Proshenkov, Aleksey Kazakov, Aleksandr Akelin and Filipp Ombysh in a pretrial detention center, and Sergey Yefremov under house arrest. The court soon transferred all four believers from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest
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