Kazadaev Pavel Alekseevich

Kazadaev Pavel Alekseevich, born September 30, 1996, lives in Novokuznetsk.

On charges of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Participation in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 3 years of suspended imprisonment. The appellate court increased the sentence to 3 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

He was under a personal recognisance (a written undertaking not to leave the city) from May 28, 2021 until August 18, 2023, when he was taken into custody.