Two more believers detained in Rostov-on-Don

On the morning of June 10, 2019, 32-year-old Ruslan Alyev was detained for 48 hours at his home in Rostov-on-Don. A few hours later, it also became known about the detention of 22-year-old Rostov resident Semyon Baibak. According to preliminary data, they are waiting for a court decision on the measure of restraint, being in a temporary detention center on Voroshilovsky Avenue.

Update. On June 11, 2019, the court imposed house arrest on Ruslan Alyev and Semyon Baibak. They left the detention center after spending a day behind bars

Ruslan Alyyev's wife was informed that a criminal case had been opened against her husband for his faith. Earlier, on May 22, 2019, employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia conducted raids on at least 15 addresses of Rostov residents who were suspected of professing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Men and women were detained. Three believers — father and son Vilen and Arsen Avanesov, as well as Alexander Parkov — were then sent to jail.

Law enforcement officers inappropriately call the religion of citizens participation in the activities of an extremist organization. Prominent public figures of Russia, the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, the President of the Russian Federation, as well as international organizations - the foreign policy service of the European Union, observers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - drew attention to this problem . Jehovah's Witnesses have nothing to do with extremism and insist on their complete innocence. The Russian government has repeatedly stated that the decisions of the Russian courts on the liquidation and prohibition of organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses "do not assess the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses, do not contain a restriction or prohibition to practice the above teachings individually."