Biography
Early in the morning in May 2019, FSB officers broke into Alexandr Ganin's house, searched and took him to a temporary detention center. The believer was accused of extremism; in October 2020, the court sentenced him to 3 years of probation only because of his faith in Jehovah God.
Alexandr was born in 1957 in the village of Ekhabi on Sakhalin Island. As a child, he loved to ride a motorcycle. After leaving school, Alexandr became a driver. Now retired, spends a lot of time in the garden, loves animals.
For more than twenty years, Alexandr has been firmly convinced that there is an Almighty Creator, and the Bible is his word. His wife Svetlana, with whom he has been married since 1980, having seen positive changes in her husband's character, also began to show an interest in the spiritual. According to relatives and friends of Alexandr, he was convicted for nothing.
Case History
In 2019, the FSB in Ulyanovsk opened a case against the Mysin couple and their co-religionists Zelenskiy, Tabakov, Ganin and Khachikyan. After the searches, they were sent to jail and later under house arrest. In addition, savings and cars in the amount of 1.5 million rubles were seized from believers. The charge under Article 282.2 was limited to participation in “activities that included religious singing, preaching, studying the article and praying.” The believers had a hard time with the repressions. So, Sergey Mysin, who spent 2 months behind bars, ended up in intensive care. The state prosecutor asked to send all six to a penal colony for terms of 3 to 7 years, as well as to confiscate the seized property and money. The court of first instance sentenced them to a suspended sentence of up to 3.5 years. The court of appeal increased the suspended sentence for Sergey Mysin to four years, while leaving the sentences for the rest of the believers unchanged.
