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Samsonov Artem Anatolievich

Date of birth: September 15, 1974 (51 years old)
citizenship:  Россия
Occupation: политика
Article of the Criminal Code:  132 ч. 4 para. «б»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  13 лет лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима
Date of sentencing:  September 20, 2022
Current location:  Penal Colony No.27, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Primorsky Krai
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Samsonov Artem Anatolievich, born September 15, 1974, lived in Vladivostok, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Has higher education, married. On charges of committing a crime under paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violent acts of a sexual nature using the helpless state of a victim under the age of fourteen"), he was sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to working with children for a period of 10 years, and restriction of freedom for 1 year. On July 14, 2023, the Primorsky Krai Court upheld the sentence; on March 5, 2024, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence.
Deprived of liberty since November 17, 2021.