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Tolokonnikov Sergei Aleksandrovich

Date of birth: September 25, 1972 (53 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  5 лет 2 месяца лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  July 12, 2023
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  June 27, 2025
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Tolokonnikov Sergei Aleksandrovich, born September 25, 1972, resident of Moscow.

On charges of committing a crime under Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with his involvement in the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

Detained on October 20, 2021, in custody since October 22, 2021.