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Safronova Anna Arnoldovna

Date of birth: July 22, 1965 (60 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.3 ч. 1 ; 282.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  January 25, 2022
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 5, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Tver Oblast

Safronova Anna Arnoldovna, born July 22, 1965, lives in Astrakhan.

On charges of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Participation in the activities of an extremist organisation") and Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Financing extremist activities") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, she was sentenced to 6 years in a general regime penal colony.

She has been under house arrest since June 3, 2021. In custody since January 25, 2022.

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03 Apr, 2025 | 11:18

Jehovah’s Witness Anna Safronova is harassed in the penal colony because of her refusal to wear a St George’s ribbon