RUSSIA, 4 to 7 years of detention against 10 Jehovah’s Witnesses requested by the prosecution

On August 6, 2025, during a debate in the Komsomolsky District Court of the Khabarovsk Territory, the prosecutor requested punishment of 10 Jehovah’s Witnesses. Believers Mikhail Dorofeev, Nikolai Kovadnev and Radion Shitov, accused under Part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization), the prosecutor asked to impose seven years in prison, and the rest of the defendants in the case – spouses Ulita and Sergei Sachnev, Irina Bondareva and her son Vasily, Marina Voitko, Ivan Nikitin and Svetlana Zharkova – four years of imprisonment under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an…