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Ivshin Aleksandr Evgenievich

Date of birth: August 21, 1957 (68 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  7 лет 6 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 10, 2021
Current location:  FKU IK-12 GUFSIN Rossii po Rostovskoy oblasti
Date of release:  October 13, 2021

Ivshin Aleksandr Evgenievich, born in 1957. He lives in the village of Kholmskaya in the Krasnodar Krai and is a pensioner.

Under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with his membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in a general regime penal colony.

He was under a written undertaking not to leave from April 29, 2020 to February 11, 2021, when he was taken into custody.