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Pekpaev Pavel Vitalievich

Date of birth: June 11, 1976 (49 years old)
City of residence: Yoshkar-Ola
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  5 лет 6 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  August 4, 2023
Current location:  in transit

Pekpaev Pavel Vitalievich, born June 11, 1976, resident of Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic, blogger, previously convicted under Part 1 of Article 354.1 of the Russian Criminal Code. On August 4, 2023, he was sentenced by the Yoshkar-Ola City Court under subparagraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Public dissemination, under the guise of reliable news, of knowingly false information containing data on the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens motivated by political hatred") to 5 years and 6 months' imprisonment. On October 9, 2023, the appellate court upheld the sentence.