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Tsikunov Aleksandr Gennadievich

Date of birth: November 25, 1967 (58 years old)
Occupation: инженерия
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  May 2, 2021
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  March 6, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 40, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Kemerovo Oblast

Tsikunov Aleksandr Gennadievich, born on November 25, 1967, lives in the city of Kaltan, Kemerovo Oblast, before his arrest he worked as an engineer in the capital construction department of the Yuzhno-Kuzbasskaya thermal power station.

On March 6, 2025, under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime colony. He was detained on May 2, 2021, on May 4, 2021, by the decision of the judge of the Kaltan District Court Evgeny Vanyushin, he was sent to house arrest, on June 24, 2021, he was released on his own recognisance not to leave.

Taken into custody after the verdict was announced.

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