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Sharygin Mikhail Sergeevich

Date of birth: August 3, 1984 (41 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2 ; 282.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  pre-trial detention
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  3 года лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 10 месяцев ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  February 13, 2025
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 13, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Sharygin Mikhail Sergeevich, born August 3, 1984, lived in Nizhny Novgorod, former member of the Yabloko party. On February 13, 2025, he was sentenced to 3 years in a general regime penal colony with 10 months of restricted freedom after release under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Participation in the activities of a public association or other organisation in respect of which a court has made a decision that has entered into legal force to liquidate or prohibit activities in connection with the implementation of extremist activity", liable to up to 6 years in prison), in 2020 he was fined 400 thousand roubles under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public justification of terrorism using the Internet").
Deprived of liberty since February 13, 2024, is in a pre-trial detention center.