Andriy Sivak
Andriy Sivak, born 1974, Moscow Oblast. Charges: Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad”. Status: at large.
In brief
Moscow Oblast · Sergiyev Posad · Teachers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
Full wording of the charges
as part of a sustainable criminal organised group, under the guise of a non-profit organisation, organised and held a religious meeting at which he recited sayings and quotations from books inscribed in the Federal List of Extremist Materials of the Russian Federation, pointed out to community members and instructed them to oppose all religions except for Jehovah's Witnesses, forbade them to participate in celebrations of holidays of "false religion" and in singing songs and prayers of the "false religion", persuaded them to leave the work in which the member of the assembly participates in the "false" worship or support for it, forbade close association with members of other religions, also uttered propagandistic statements
Latest event
October 11, 2017 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad
Criminal case
The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad
Other defendants in the case
- Vyacheslav Stepanov — At large
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sergiev Posad
Details and sources
Full summary
On 12 April 2013, the house was searched, Jehovah's Witnesses literature was seized, and a case was opened for incitement to religious hatred based on statements made during community meetings. On 4 March 2016, the court acquitted Sivak. The court ruling stated, inter alia, that the experts "substituted the objects submitted for examination with objects found by hand". On 26 May 2016, the appellate court sent the case for a new examination. On 21 June 2017, the Sergiev Posad court acquitted Sivak for a second time.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.