asked for<\/a> eight years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\nVitaliy Syrykh, 55, lives in Kaltan, a town in Kemerovo Oblast. A court placed him under house arrest in 2021 on charges of \u2018participating in the activities of an extremist organisation\u2019, but soon released him on a written undertaking not to leave his place of residence. The case was discontinued a year later.
However, the authorities opened a new criminal case against him in 2024, this time on charges of \u2018organising the activities of an extremist organisation\u2019. According to investigators, Vitaliy Syrykh took part, as an organiser, in the activities of the Kaltan Local Religious Organisation of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-67036","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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