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Gerasimov Aleksei Anatolievich

Date of birth: December 17, 1980 (45 years old)
City of residence: Kazan
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  December 7, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 12, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Mordovia

Gerasimov Aleksei Anatolievich, born December 17, 1980 and lives in Kazan.

He was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony for committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organising the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with his involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. On March 22, 2024, the appellate court upheld the verdict.

He was under a written undertaking not to leave the country since March 18, 2022, and was taken into custody in the courtroom on December 7, 2023. 

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