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Bitusov Yevgeny Vladimirovich

Date of birth: February 22, 1979 (47 years old)
citizenship: Россия
Occupation: рабочие профессии
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  December 28, 2022
Current location:  Penal Сolony No. 14, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Khabarovsk Krai

Bitusov Yevgeny Vladimirovich, born February 22, 1979, lives in Zeya, Amur Oblast.

On charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organisation of the activities of a religious organisation, in respect of which a decision has been made to liquidate in connection with the implementation of extremist activity") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony. He was under a written personal recognisance (an obligation not to leave the city).

On December 28, 2022, he was taken into custody.

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