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Kosteev Sergei Vladimirovich

Date of birth: May 9, 1960 (66 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
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год 2 месяца ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  March 5, 2024
Current location:  Penal colony No. 4, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Tyva

Kosteev Sergei Vladimirovich, born May 9, 1960, resident of Irkutsk.

On charges of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organisation of the activities of an extremist organisation") and Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Financing extremist activities") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. On 12 December 2024, the appeal court upheld the sentence.

Detained on October 4, 2021, held in custody.