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Levchenko Igor Yuryevich

Date of birth: December 20, 1995 (30 years old)
citizenship:  Россия Украина
Occupation: музыка
Article of the Criminal Code:  282 ч. 2 para. «а»
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  3 года лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  June 28, 2022
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  December 18, 2024
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Levchenko Igor Yuryevich, born December 20, 1995, ethnically Ukrainian, citizen of Russia and Ukraine, resident of Krasnogorsk near Moscow, musician, singer, music teacher.

On June 28, 2022, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced him to 3 years in prison under paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Incitement of hatred or enmity on the basis of belonging to a social group using the Internet with the threat of violence"). He was deprived of liberty from 11 March 2022. On 18 December 2024 he was released from the penal colony.