RUSSIA.. DOZENS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARRESTED (TWO DETAINED) AS POLICE AND ARMED TROOPS RAID HOMES OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CONFISCATING THEIR PROPERTIES AND OTHER VALUABLES.

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RUSSIA.. 

DOZENS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARRESTED (TWO DETAINED) AS POLICE AND ARMED TROOPS RAID HOMES OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CONFISCATING THEIR PROPERTIES AND OTHER VALUABLES. 

No fewer than 16 residences of peaceful citizens in Belgorod and 12 residences in Kemerovo were subjected to invasion by representatives of law enforcement agencies and to searches. Dozens of people were arrested and several have remained in custody for two days now. As the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported on 9 February, the citizens are suspected of continuing the activity of the organization "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia," which was liquidated by decision of the Russian Supreme Court on 20 April 2017, which found the aforesaid organization "extremist."

In the evening of 7 February in Belgorod, large groups consisting of personnel of the police, the Investigation Directorate of the MVD, and armed troops of a SOBR [Special Rapid Response Unit] simultaneously barged into a number of private homes of local residents. In some cases citizens were thrown to the floor and pinned to the wall, and then all were forcibly taken to the police department and searches were conducted in the residences. A group of deaf people also was taken to the police department, who had gathered for friendly communication. In all, dozens of people were taken to the police department at 60 Prince Trubetskoy St. At the police department, passport data were collected from citizens, fingerprints were taken, and summons were drawn up. The last of those released left at nine in the morning of the next day. Two citizens, Anatoly Shaliapin and Sergei Voikov, were held in custody for 48 hours and the issue of the selection of measures of prevention was decided within the context of the investigation of a case regarding continuation of the activity of an extremist organization.

During the searches, which sometimes were conducted in a brutal form and were accompanied by insulting comments, from the citizens were seized Bibles, all electronic equipment and data storage devices, travel passports, money, and in some cases even photographs that were hanging on the wall. 

The Russian Ministry of Justice, which last year requested the liquidation of the legal entity of Jehovah's Witnesses, had insisted that the constitutional rights of individual believers would not be affected in any way in the event of the satisfaction of its lawsuit.

A criminal case is about to opened for the two brothers that was detained??
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[Annie Abbott]

What a shame to do this to such law abiding citizens

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41 minutes ago, Annie Abbott said:

What a shame to do this to such law abiding citizens

@Annie Abbott

I will repay says Jehovah! 

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[NicholasMarks]

It's all so very sad. People who make a stance for righteousness sake get persecuted, just as Jesus was persecuted. The reason is obvious...hit out at people who offer no serious threat or don't offer any powerful physical resistance and you can send out shock-waves around the whole region that you are big and strong, so, 'don't mess with us'. Its all a bit of a con....but people have been falling for that bullying con since before Jesus.

We are living in the time of the end and we must realise that these are the things Jesus warned us about. He also taught us about the approach of Wormwood and its function in separating the faithful from the unfaithful and that time is getting ever nearer...and all the righteous know for a fact the the fiery lake of sulphur will not, spiritually' harm them.

This backlash from the unsaved, though, is why we need to fully embrace the 'one to one' relationship we have with our much loved saviour and his father...Jehovah.

[David Normand]

Fore gleam of what the future holds. The whole world in in the power of the wicked one and only Jehovah's king can free us from his evil activities.