Case History
In September 2021, the apartment of Dmitriy and Nadezhda Semyonov was searched. The reason was a criminal case for practicing their faith. According to the Investigative Committee, the believers encouraged a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy “to participate in the activity of an extremist organization.” In June 2022, the case went to court. The charges were based on the testimony of a woman who expressed a desire to study the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses and later began cooperating with the FSB. In November 2022, the court gave Dmitriy and Nadezhda a 4-year suspended sentence for discussions about the Bible. The court of appeal upheld the verdict.