OBSERVERS
ARRIVING
FOR A TRIAL OF A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS IN YOSHKAR-OLA SUMMONED FOR
INTERROGATION AT
F.S.B.
In
Yoshkar-Ola,
arrivals for a court session regarding continuation of the
measure of
restriction of an adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses (an
organization ruled in
Russia to be extremist and forbidden), Ekaterina Pagasheva,
were given summons
to interrogation at the F.S.B. This is stated on the website
of the
organization.
The
session in a case
regarding participation in an extremist organization (part 2,
article 282.2 of
the C.C.) against the resident of Mari El occurred on 18
March. Only six
observers were admitted into the courthouse and at the
entrance they were given
a summons for interrogation in the F.S.B. on 24 March.
The
case against the
30-year-old Pegasheva was opened in late September because of
"conducting
conversations for the purpose of propaganda" and participation
in
Jehovah's Witnesses events. She has been in a SIZO since
October; the detention
of the woman was extended until 26 May.
In
late January,
around 100 observers who arrived for a court session in
Lipetsk received a
summons for interrogation in the F.S.B. Because of what
happened, they
complained to the office of the prosecutor general, reporting
"extra-procedural ties" between the court's administration and
the
F.S.B. (tr. by PDS, posted 24 March 2020)
ARRIVALS
FOR TRIAL OF
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS IN YOSHKAR-OLA GIVEN SUMMONS TO INTERROGATION
AT F.S.B.
Believers
coming for
a court session regarding the Jehovah's Witness Ekaterina
Pegasheva from Mari
El in Yoshkar-Ola were handed summons to interrogation in the
local department
of the F.S.B. This was reported on the website of the
organization.
The
report says that observers
arrived for Pegasheva at a session on extending her measure of
restriction in a
case regarding participation in an extremist organization (part
2 of article
282 of the C.C.). Only six persons were allowed into the
courthouse and at the
entrance an F.S.B. officer wrote out for them a summons for
interrogation in the
office of the deputy chief of the local department of the
U.F.S.B., Aleksei
Marushin.
The
believers
reported that Pegasheva's pretrial detention was extended until
26 May. The
judge explained this as needed in order to get results of
psycho-lingistic
religious studies and phonoscopic forensic expert analyses.
Previously
F.S.B.
personnel wrote summons to interrogation for observers arriving
to support
Jehovah's Witnesses at a trial in the Soviet district court of
Makhachkala. At
that time, people were not admitted into the courtroom until an
agent received
copies of passports from them.
In 2017,
the Supreme
Court ruled that the Administrative Center of Jehovah's
Witnesses was an
extremist organization and banned it along with about 400
regional
congregations. After this, many adherents of the religious
teaching became
subjects of criminal cases. (tr. by PDS, posted 24 March 2020)
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