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Nikulin Georgy Nikolaevich

Date of birth: November 21, 1963 (62 years old)
City of residence: Saransk
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  4 года 2 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год 2 месяца ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  August 25, 2022
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  December 30, 2025
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Nikulin Georgy Nikolaevich, born November 21, 1963, lives in Saransk, electrician, husband of political prisoner Elena Nikulina.

Sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in a general regime penal colony under Part 1.1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation and participation in it") in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses, banned in Russia. Georgy was under a personal recognisance (a written undertaking not to leave the city), he had previously spent more than 4 months in a pre-trial detention center.

In custody since August 25, 2022.