Caucasian Knot (28.11.2024) – The court in Pyatigorsk sentenced a local resident to two years in prison for organizing the activities of the destructive religious movement “Friends of Falun Gong”.
“Falun Gong” was founded by Li Hongzhi in the early 90s, in 1999 the Chinese government banned school teaching, its leader moved to the United States. Hongzhi’s book “Rzhuan Falun”, the brochure “Report on the verification of allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong followers in China” and the information sheet “Falun Dafa in the world” “World torch relay in the protection of human rights” in Russia are included in the all-Russian list of materials recognized by the court as extremist.
According to the press service of the FSB Department in the Stavropol Territory, the court in Pyatigorsk found a local resident guilty of organizing the activities of a destructive religious movement.
“The defendant was found guilty of organizing the activities of a foreign or international non-governmental organization, against which a decision was made to be declared undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation and sentenced to two years in a general regime colony,” Interfax said today.
According to the investigation, a resident of Pyatigorsk in 2020-2024 conducted spiritual and health-improving practices, meetings and meetings, involving new participants, sold products and literature of undesirable organizations.
There were no comments from the representatives of the convict. The name of the convict is not given in the release.
“Caucasian Knot” also wrote that on June 9 it became known that the court of Pyatigorsk received a criminal case against Oksana Shchetkina. According to OVD-Info, she was accused of participating in the activities of one of the Falun Gong organizations – an undesirable organization (part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but then she was charged with organizing the activities of an undesirable organization (part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Source Link: https://hrwf.eu/russia-a-resident-of-pyatigorsk-convicted-of-involvement-in-the-falun-gong-movement/
