After the searches in Yalta on March 11, the occupants put 42-year-old Taras Kuzio under house arrest, who is suspected of financing an extremist organization – Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
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“On March 12, the Kyiv District Court in Simferopol sent under house arrest the detained 42-year-old Taras Kuzio from Yalta until May 4. A criminal case was opened against him for financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We are talking about Jehovah's Witnesses, with whom, according to the investigation, Kuzio is affiliated. The listeners were not allowed to attend the court session, and the lawyer appointed to the suspect provided legal assistance to the suspected activist”,- the message said.
We remind that on March 11, Russian security forces searched at least 9 houses of Crimeans in Yalta suspected of participating in the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization banned in Russia. Four people were detained for interrogation.