On April 17, 2011, the Head of Administration for the Revyakino Municipality of the Irkutsk region forced entry to a private residence where a Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting was underway.

Firing a pistol into the air, Leonid Frolov demanded an end to the meeting, and is reported to have broken furniture, assaulted two believers in attendance, and made death threats.

Participants in the meeting appealed to police for a criminal investigation of Frolov for threats of violence, abuse of office, incitement to hatred on religious grounds, and obstruction of the right to freedom of conscience and religion.

Jehovah’s Witnesses meetings were also broken up in Novokuznetsk and the Rostov region on the same day.