On March 17, 2023, the Sosnovoborsk City Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory convicted Brother Yuriy Yakovlev and sentenced him to six years and two months in prison. He has been in pretrial detention since March 2022 and remains in custody.

1. June to December 2021

   Authorities wiretapped Yuriy’s telephone and conducted other surveillance measures against him

2. March 28, 2022

   Criminal case was initiated. Charged with organizing meetings of an extremist organization via videoconference. The investigator conducted a search of Yuriy’s home without a search warrant

3. March 29, 2022

   Searches carried out in homes of five other families of Jehovah’s Witnesses and of a man with whom Yuriy had discussed the Bible. Yuriy was arrested and placed in temporary detention

4. March 30, 2022

   Sent to pretrial detention

5. June 20, 2022

   Criminal trial began

We are confident that Jehovah will continue to support and give power to his faithful servants as they hope in him.—Isaiah 40:31.