Another 126 believers continue to serve real prison terms.
Sergey Melnik, 53, a Jehovah’s Witness from Volgograd, spent more than four years and nine months in prison. His sentence for his faith ended on December 18, 2025. He left the correctional colony in Kirovo-Chepetsk, from where he took a train home the next day.
Melnik was first behind bars in May 2019 — he was placed in a pre-trial detention center after a search; later, he was sent back to the detention center after the verdict was announced.
“The hardest part was enduring isolation and worrying about my family. I didn’t know what was happening with them,” Melnik recalls. “No letters, no visits, no…
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