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Litviniuk Aleksandr Viktorovich

Александр Литвинюк

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Litviniuk Aleksandr Viktorovich

Date of birth: November 3, 1960 (65 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  December 1, 2022
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 6, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Ivanovo Oblast

Litviniuk Aleksandr Viktorovich, born November 3, 1960, lives in the Crimean city of Armyansk. He was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organizing the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses, banned in Russia. The appellate court upheld the sentence.

He was arrested on August 5, 2021, and placed under house arrest on August 6, 2021. On September 8, 2022, the court changed the preventive measure to a ban on certain actions. He has been in custody since December 1, 2022.

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