The Tajikistani missionary, accused of torturing minors, was detained by court order. This announcement was issued by United tonight. press service Petersburg courts.
st. A court in St. Petersburg arrested Sharofiddin Rakhmatov, a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan. The man is accused of torturing minors. According to investigators, he deliberately and systematically inflicted physical pain and mental suffering on four underage students in May. Religious orientation “education” took place in an apartment on Sadovaya Street. According to the case file, the accused acted out of personal animosity and regularly humiliated and beaten the children entrusted to him.
He was detained on Wednesday, May 24, and the very next day he confessed to violating the law on freedom of conscience and religious associations. It was determined that Rakhmatov, together with Turkish citizen Dinçer and Azerbaijani citizen Agayev, led “Friday prayers” in order to introduce some people to a religious association that is not registered in Russia, of which he is a member. At the same time, the detainees said that they came to the Russian Federation for a year to do missionary work in a specially rented flat. According to immigrants, children live in it, whom they teach religion.
As a result, the missionaries were found guilty of committing an administrative offense and were fined 30,000 rubles as punishment. and deportation from the Russian Federation.
However, Rakhmatov is now in detention until July 23, as he believes that his deportation may lead to the impossibility of completing the preliminary investigation in the case initiated under Article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
On the eve, it was reported that a British man suffered from a mental disorder. Moved to Russia and became homeless in Moscow.
Source: Gazeta
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