MAKHACHKALA COURT EXTENDS
DETENTION OF
ALLEGED LEADERS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN DAGESTAN
Interfax-Religiia,
25 September 2019
The Soviet district court
of Makhachkala
extended the term of detention in custody of four alleged
Jehovists who are
charged with creating an extremist organization on the territory
of Dagestan,
the court's press service reports.
The term of detention in
custody of
Marat Abdulgalimov, Maria Karpova, Arsen Abdullaev, and Anton
Dergalev was
extended to 27 November.
"The aforementioned
persons are
accused of activity connected with the extremist religious
organization
'Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia' (banned
in the RF).
The criminal case against them was opened on the basis of part 1
of article
282.2 of the CC RF (arranging the activity of an extremist
organization),"
the report says.
In June 2019, the
activity of 15 cells
of the forbidden extremist organization of Jehovah's Witnesses
in Dagestan was
terminated. It was established that over the course of several
years, members
of the cells secretly collected resources for the study of
extremist literature
and the coordination of the activity for disseminating the
ideology of the
organization.
The leaders of the sect,
who had earlier
undergone training in foreign centers and engaged in recruitment
in Dagestan,
were imprisoned. (tr. by PDS, posted 25 September 2019)
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