The Fourth General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation in Krasnodar rejected an appeal against the verdict of the defense of political prisoner Sergiy Filatov, who was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime colony with restriction of liberty for a period of 1 year for organizing and participating in the Jehovah’s Witnesses cell.
“The Fourth General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation in Krasnodar, chaired by Valery Nozdrin, rejects Sergiy Filatov's cassation appeal against the verdict. The believer continues to serve his sentence in correctional colony No. 12 in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region”,- the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website said.
We remind that in November 2018, in Dzhankoy, FSB officers conducted mass searches of people suspected of participating in the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization banned in Russia. The head of the local regional group of Witnesses “Syvash”, Sergiy Filatov, was detained. He is suspected of organizing an extremist community. The Syvash group itself was liquidated back in 2017. On March 5, the so-called Dzhankoy Distric