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Knyazev Valery Anatolievich

Валерий Князев

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Knyazev Valery Anatolievich

Date of birth: March 7, 1951 (75 years old)
City of residence: Izhevsk
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  3 года лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  November 14, 2025
Current location:  FKU LIU-12 UFSIN Rossii po Kirovskoy oblasti

Knyazev Valery Anatolievich, born on March 7, 1951, a resident of Izhevsk. November 14, 2025 according to part 1 of Art. 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organization of the activity of a religious organization, in respect of which a decision was made to liquidate due to the implementation of extremist activity"), in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses, banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison and taken into custody.

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