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Chernyshev Yury Yevgenievich

Date of birth: August 30, 1963 (62 years old)
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 3 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  March 31, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 3, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Smolensk Oblast

Chernyshev Yury Yevgenievich, born August 30, 1963, lives in Moscow, civil engineer.

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 that has been decided to be liquidated due to extremist activity) in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

He was detained on November 24, 2020, was under house arrest from November 27, 2020 to March 30, 2023, and was taken into custody on March 31, 2023.