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Kiramov Rinat Ildusovich

Date of birth: August 25, 1987 (38 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1 ; 282.3 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  April 17, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 6, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Tula Oblast

Kiramov Rinat Ildusovich, born August 25, 1987, resident of Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan Oblast.

On charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of the activities of a religious organisation that has been decided to be liquidated due to extremist activity") and Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Financing extremist activity") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 7 years in a general regime penal colony.

In custody since November 9, 2021.