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Zinchenko Maksim Viktorovich

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Zinchenko Maksim Viktorovich

Date of birth: April 9, 1992 (34 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  forced labor
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  2 года принудительных работ
Date of sentencing:  April 16, 2024
Current location:  correctional center ; Penal Colony No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol

Zinchenko Maksim Viktorovich, born April 9, 1992, and lives in Feodosia.

On April 16, 2024, he was charged with committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Participation in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with his membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia. He was sentenced to 2 years of compulsory work.

He was detained on May 22, 2023, and was under house arrest from May 24, 2023 until (presumably) April 26, 2024, when he was released on his own recognizance not to leave until the verdict came into force.

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