The occupiers claim that a 53-year-old Kerch resident allegedly organised meetings of cell members and ‘spread the ideas of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organisation’, for which FSB and Interior Ministry officers detained him. This was reported by the occupation ‘Investigative Committee of Crimea and Sevastopol’ on its channel in Telegram.
Against the leader of the organisation opened criminal proceedings for organizing the activities of a banned religious organisation (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal code of rf).
During searches in his house and places of meetings, banned literature and other illegal materials were seized. Now an investigation is underway on the involvement of other persons in the activities of the Kerch cell.
In 2017, the Supreme Court of Russia ruled that the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation was recognised as extremist and banned on the territory of the country.