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Panyuta Olga Aleksandrovna

Date of birth: June 11, 1959 (66 years old)
City of residence: Spassk-Dalny
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1.1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  4 года 4 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 10, 2023
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  April 10, 2026
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Panyuta Olga Aleksandrovna, born June 11, 1959, lives in the city of Spassk-Dalny, Primorsky Krai, is a pensioner.

She was sentenced to 4.5 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of committing a crime under Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Incitement, recruitment or other involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organisation"). The appellate court mitigated the sentence and sentenced the believer to 4 years and 4 months in a general regime penal colony.

She was under house arrest from November 25, 2018 to November 19, 2019, when the preventive measure was changed to a written undertaking not to leave. In custody since February 10, 2023.

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