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Zhu Yun

Date of birth: December 20, 1973 (52 years old)
Occupation: религия; бизнес и предпринимательство
Article of the Criminal Code:  284.1 ч. 3
Form of repression:  pre-trial detention
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Sentence:  3 года лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Current location:  unknown
Lists of persecuted:  Religious list

Zhu Yun, born December 20, 1973, resident of Tomsk, citizen of Russia, founder and director of several companies that worked at different times in the field of logging, co-founder of the legal entity of the Russian website of the information agency The Epoch Media Group, associated with Falun Gong.

On June 27, 2025, he was sentenced to 3 years in a general regime penal colony under Part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of the activities of a foreign or international non-governmental organisation whose activities are recognised as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation").

Deprived of liberty since November 22, 2024.

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