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Chausova Oksana Borisovna

Date of birth: June 18, 1986 (39 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Date of arrest:  August 8, 2023
Sentence:  1 год 10 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  December 2, 2024
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  August 29, 2025
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Chausova Oksana Borisovna, born June 18, 1986, lives in Kursk.

On December 2, 2024, under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Participation in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with her membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, she was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in a general regime penal colony.

She was detained on August 8, 2023, and was under house arrest from August 10, 2023 to February 28, 2024, when she was released under a ban on certain actions. On December 2, 2024, she was taken into custody. On August 29, 2025, she was released after serving her sentence.

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