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Etkeev Andrei Vasilievich

Date of birth: January 11, 1968 (58 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  5 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  November 27, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 17, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Kirov Oblast

Etkeev Andrei Vasilievich, presumably born January 11, 1968, resident of the Urzhumsky District of the Kirov Region. On November 27, 2023, he was sentenced under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation motivated by political hatred") to 5 years in prison. On February 7, 2024, the Kirov Regional Court upheld the sentence, only recalculating the preventive measures. He was detained on April 27, 2023, was under house arrest from April 28 to November 27, in custody from November 27, 2023 to February 7, 2024.

Deprived of liberty.

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Andrei Etkeev is a political prisoner