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Bakhtin Aleksandr Sergeevich

Date of birth: August 15, 1971 (54 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  August 11, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 6, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Moscow Oblast

Bakhtin Aleksandr Sergeevich, born August 15, 1971, resident of Mytishchi, Moscow Region, musician by education, animal rights activist. He was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of crimes under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the exercise of powers by state bodies of the Russian Federation ... motivated by political hatred").

Deprived of liberty since March 2, 2023.