IN KIROV EVERYONE HAS LEFT SIZO EXCEPT ANDRZEJ ONISZCZUK
Jehovah's
Witnesses in Russia, 2 April 2019
On 28 March 2019, the Pervomaisky district court of the
city of Kirov
denied the investigator an extension of the term of detention in
custody of
Evgeny Suvorkov. He was transferred to house arrest. Thereby of
five believers
arrested in Kirov on 9 October 2018 for "joint singing of
biblical songs .
. . and study of religious literature of the so-called Sacred
Scriptures (Bible),"
only 50-year-old Andrzej Oniszczuk, a citizen of the republic of
Poland living
in Russia who has already spent 176 days behind bars, remains.
The first to be transferred to house arrest after 73
days in the SIZO
[pretrial detention cell] was Vladimir Korobeinikov. This
happened on 20
December 2018. On 2 February 2019, the court transferred under
house arrest
Andrei Suvorkov and Maksim Khalturin. Both spent 117 days each
behind bars.
Religious persecution in Kirov is continuing. On 26
March 2019 at least
ten new searches in homes of believers occurred in the city. A
criminal case
was opened with respect to three persons. G. Malykh is engaged
in the
investigation. He is an investigator of the first department for
investigation
of especially important cases of the investigation department of
the
Investigative Committee of Russia (S.K.R.) for Kirov oblast. He
also opened the
case against Andrzej Oniszczuk and others in October 2018. (tr.
by PDS, posted
3 April 2019)
Background article:
Raids
du jour on Jehovah's Witnesses
March 26, 2019
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