{"id":53647,"date":"2025-11-25T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/news\/sud-v-voronezhe-vynes-obvinitelnyj-prigovor-desyati-svidetelyam-iegovy-vosmerym-naznachili-sroki-v-kolonii\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:17:39","slug":"sud-v-voronezhe-vynes-obvinitelnyj-prigovor-desyati-svidetelyam-iegovy-vosmerym-naznachili-sroki-v-kolonii","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/en\/news\/sud-v-voronezhe-vynes-obvinitelnyj-prigovor-desyati-svidetelyam-iegovy-vosmerym-naznachili-sroki-v-kolonii\/","title":{"rendered":"A court in Voronezh convicted ten Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses. Eight were sentenced to prison terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1579\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/svideteli-iegovy-v-sude-voronezha.jpg\" alt=\"\u0421\u0443\u0434 \u0432 \u0412\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0436\u0435 \u0432\u044b\u043d\u0435\u0441 \u043e\u0431\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440 \u0434\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0442\u0438 \u0441\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044f\u043c \u0418\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432\u044b. \u0412\u043e\u0441\u044c\u043c\u0435\u0440\u044b\u043c \u043d\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0441\u0440\u043e\u043a\u0438 \u0432 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0438\" class=\"wp-image-51644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/svideteli-iegovy-v-sude-voronezha.jpg 1579w, https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/svideteli-iegovy-v-sude-voronezha-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/svideteli-iegovy-v-sude-voronezha-1536x768.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1579px) 100vw, 1579px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Persecuted Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in a Voronezh court. Photo: jw-russia.org<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge of the Levoberezhny District Court of Voronezh, Yevgeniya Laskavaya, sentenced Yevgeny Sokolov to seven years in a general-regime penal colony; Aleksei Antyukhin, Yury Galka, Valery Gursky, Vitaly Nerush, Stepan Pankratov, Mikhail Veselov, and Anatoly Yagupov to six years in a penal colony; and Sergei Bayev and Igor Popov received six-year suspended sentences. This information is <a href=\"https:\/\/dgoj30r2jurw5.cloudfront.net\/news\/2025\/11\/211657.html\">reported<\/a> by the website <em>\u2018Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. Legal Situation in Russia\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the prosecution, they \u201cmade a criminal decision to carry out deliberate organizational actions aimed at resuming and continuing the activities\u201d of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses cell in Voronezh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was heard in court from December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the believers were found guilty under the article on organizing extremist activity (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code). They did not plead guilty. After the verdict was announced, Antyukhin, Galka, Gursky, Nerush, Pankratov, Veselov, and Yagupov were taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can support the believers by sending letters to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>394030, Voronezh, Zhelyabova St., 56, Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Voronezh Oblast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Vitaly Alekseevich Nerush<\/strong>, born 1979<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stepan Viktorovich Pankratov<\/strong>, born 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aleksey Stanislavovich Antyukhin<\/strong>, born 1976<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yury Yuryevich Galka<\/strong>, born 1975<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Valery Ivanovich Gursky<\/strong>, born 1963<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mikhail Nikolaevich Veselov<\/strong>, born 1968<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anatoly Gennadyevich Yagupov<\/strong>, born 1968<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We consider these imprisoned Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses to be political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-53647","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","regions-voronezh-oblast","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A court in Voronezh convicted ten Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses. 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