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Svarichevsky Adam Mikhailovich

Date of birth: September 20, 1963 (62 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  6 лет 3 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима, 1 год ограничения свободы
Date of sentencing:  December 21, 2022
Current location:  Penal Colony No.31, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Primorsky Krai

Svarichevsky Adam Mikhailovich, born September 20, 1963, lives in Blagoveshchensk.

On charges of committing a crime 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 a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in a general regime penal colony. The appellate court upheld the sentence.

Since September 24, 2020, he has been under a personal recognisance (a written undertaking not to leave). On December 21, 2022, he was arrested in the courtroom after the verdict was announced.