Shiyan Andrei Vladimirovich was born on September 15, 1969, lives in the city of Lesosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
On April 29, 2025, under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organisation of the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years and 1 month in a general regime colony and taken into custody.
Before the verdict, he was under a written undertaking not to leave.
On 19 March 2026, the appellate court replaced the sentence with a fine of 700,000 rubles; taking into account the time spent in custody, the amount was reduced to 600,000 rubles.
