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Yegozaryan Igor Artemovich

Date of birth: January 17, 1965 (61 years old)
City of residence: Volgograd
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  September 23, 2021
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  December 5, 2025
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Yegozaryan Igor Artemovich, born January 17, 1965, lived in Volgograd, worker. Under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of the activities of a religious organisation, in respect of which a decision has been made to liquidate due to the implementation of extremist activities") in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony.

He was in custody from May 16 to December 26, 2019, when he was released under a ban on certain actions. On September 23, 2021, he was taken into custody again.