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Shabanov Andrei Aleksandrovich

Date of birth: October 5, 1980 (45 years old)
City of residence: Samara
Occupation: музыка
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2 ; 280.4 ч. 2 para. «в»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  February 5, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 10, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Samara Oblast

Shabanov Andrei Aleksandrovich, born October 5, 1980, citizen of Russia, resident of Samara, saxophonist, disabled person of group II.

On January 19, 2022, he was sentenced under Part 1 and Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Rehabilitation of Nazism") to a fine of 60 thousand rubles. On February 5, 2025, he was sentenced under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for terrorist activity on the Internet") and paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for activity directed against state security on the Internet") to 6 years in a general regime penal colony.

Deprived of liberty since March 21, 2024.

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29 May, 2025 | 8:10

Andrei Shabanov is a political prisoner