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Zagulin Dmitry Nikolaevich

Date of birth: December 29, 1973 (52 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Birobidzhan
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  3 года 6 месяцев лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  December 19, 2022
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  March 27, 2026
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Zagulin Dmitry Nikolaevich, born December 29, 1973, lives in the city of Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast. On charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Russian Criminal Code ("financing extremist activity") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime penal colony. The criminal case was initiated on May 14, 2018, he was under a written undertaking not to leave.
He was taken into custody after the verdict was announced on December 19, 2022.