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Simonov Mikhail Yurievich

Date of birth: January 27, 1960 (66 years old)
citizenship: Россия
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  6 лет 6 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  March 30, 2023
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 9, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Novgorod Oblast

Simonov Mikhail Yurievich, born January 27, 1960, restaurant car manager, pensioner, resident of Belarus, citizen of Russia. On March 30, 2023, he was sentenced by the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow to 7 years in a general regime penal colony under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the exercise of powers by state bodies of the Russian Federation"). The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence on appeal, on January 18, 2024, the Second Cassation Court reduced the sentence to 6 years and 6 months in a general regime penal colony.

Deprived of liberty since November 9, 2022.

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