Tolmachyov Aleksandr Mikhailovich
Article of the Criminal Code:
Tolmachyov Aleksandr Mikhailovich
- Date of birth: 11.03.1955
- Article of the Criminal Code: 163 pt.3
- Form of repression: deprivation of liberty
- Pursuit stage: Other
- Lists of persecuted: Archive , Died in detention
Tolmachev Alexander Mikhailovich was born on 11 March 1955, lived in Rostov-on-Don, publisher of the newspaper "Upolnomochen Zayavit" ("Authorised to Declare") and the magazine "Pro Rostov" ("About Rostov"), editor-in-chief of "Novocherkasskiye Vedomosti".
On 29 October 2014, he was sentenced on 4 episodes of part 3 of Article 163 of the Russian Criminal Code (‘Extortion on a large scale’) to 9 years in a strict regime penal colony; Rostov activists and journalists claimed that his prosecution was political.
In custody since 20 December 2011, he died in Penal Colony-9 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Orenburg region on 9 November 2020, a month and a half before his release.
