Vitaly Burik

A resident of Kerch, worked in a boiler house. On 9 October 2024, he was detained at work — in order to enter the enterprise, the security forces cut a thick chain from the gate. After the detention, he was taken home to search his apartment and two garages. After two days in the temporary detention centre Burik was placed under house arrest on the case of organising activities of an extremist organisation in connection with his involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely because of their religious activities: holding meetings and worship services and attracting new supporters.